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The Robert Kravis and Kimberly Kravis Foundation at a glance

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The Robert Kravis and Kimberly Kravis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$440k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.1MEnvironment$225kHealth$145kHuman Services$120kScience & Tech$110kSocial Science$76kArts & Culture$74kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $305k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Spence School$75,000
Viewpoint Educational Foundation$70,000
Harvard University$60,000
Baby2Baby$50,000
Conservation International Foundation$50,000
The Deerfield Academy$25,000
Lead Africa$20,000
School Year Abroad$15,000
Harvard Business School$10,000
The East Hampton Village Foundation Inc$10,000
Northside Center for Child Development$10,000
The Rockerfeller University$10,000
Maysles Documentary Center$10,000
Lung Cancer Research Foundation$5,000
Center for Hearing and Communication$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Harvard University: $60k → 8%School Year Abroad: $15k → 10%The Deerfield Academy: $25k → 14%Harvard Business School: $53k → 16%Viewpoint Educational Foundation: $70k → 14%The East Hampton Village Foundation Inc: $10k → 7%Lung Cancer Research Foundation: $100k → 17%The Hotchkiss School: $25k → 9%Conservation International: $100k → 7%Harvard University: $50k → 8%Deerfield Academy: $25k → 14%Harvard Business School: $10k → 16%Viewpoint Educational Foundation: $60k → 14%East Hampton Village Foundation: $10k → 7%Lung Cancer Research Foundation: $35k → 17%The Hotchkiss School: $24k → 9%Conservation International Foundation: $50k → 7%Harvard University: $10k → 8%Deerfield Academy: $25k → 14%Harvard Business School: $10k → 16%Viewpoint School: $60k → 14%Conservation International Foundation: $50k → 7%Viewpoint Educational Foundation: $53k → 14%Maysles Documentary Center: $30k → 17%Conservation International: $40k → 7%Baby2Baby: $50k → 14%Maysles Documentary Center: $30k → 17%Conservation International: $25k → 7%Baby2Baby: $50k → 14%Baby2Baby: $50k → 14%The Rockefeller University: $25k → 17%The Rockefeller University: $25k → 17%Lead Africa: $100k → 17%Lead Africa: $75k → 17%Lead Africa: $50k → 17%Lead Africa: $50k → 17%Lead Africa: $20k → 17%Sponsors for Educational Opportunity: $25k → 17%Sponsors for Educational Opportunity: $25k → 17%Sponsors for Educational Opportunity: $23k → 17%The Spence School: $75k → 17%The Spence School: $75k → 17%The Spence School: $73k → 17%The Spence School: $34k → 17%The Spence School: $30k → 17%Collegiate School: $60k → 17%Collegiate School: $53k → 17%Collegiate School: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 18 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$2.1M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+2%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LA
    LEAD Africa
    5× · 2021–2025 · $295k · revenue +645%
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $265k · revenue +64%
  • VE
    VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $243k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -45%
  • TA
    TARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -36%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Deerfield Academy; the most unlike its peers is Target Als Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEAD Africa: $295,000 · EducationLEAD AfricaTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $287,400 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOLPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $170,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $162,500 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $72,500 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INCTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $49,000 · Education+3 more: $32,500 · EducationVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $242,500 · OtherVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOU…BABY2BABY: $170,000 · OtherBABY2BABYHarvard Business School: $86,000 · OtherHarvard Business School+4 more: $17,000 · OtherCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $265,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION …EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentEAST HAMPTON …LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $140,000 · HealthMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLISMORE ROAD INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $4,300 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $15,000 · InternationalROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,263,900Other$515,500Environment$285,000Health$140,000Arts & Culture$89,300International$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEAD Africa: $295,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $287,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $242,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $170,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $162,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $72,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYSLES INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $49,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $4,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert Kravis and Kimberly Kravis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert Kravis and Kimberly Kravis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Robert Kravis and Kimberly Kravis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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