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The Tamara a Kirkbride Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$64kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$3,100
Median grant
5
States reached
$396k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARATHON CHURCH OF CHRIST$10,200
NATIONAL EVANGELISM WITH SOJOURNERS$10,020
THE BREAD OF LIFE CENTER$10,000
KEY WEST CHURCH OF CHRIST$6,534
WITS END RESOURCES$5,500
CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RESPONSE TEAM$5,000
STUART CHURCH OF CHRIST$3,100
UNIVERSITY CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST$2,000
STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION$500
KEY LARGO CHURCH OF CHRIST$400
ORANGE AVE CHURCH OF CHRIST$200
HIALEAH CHURCH OF CHRIST$200
THE PARK CHURCH OF CHRIST$200
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%REVERSE THE DOOR: $9k → 10%TENT CITY HELPERS: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
OH
CA
AR
TN
OK
TX
FL
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 6 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$49k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-27%

Still filing today

17%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • SC
    STUART CHURCH OF CHRIST
    3× · 2022–2024 · $18k
  • MC
    MARATHON CHURCH OF CHRIST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
  • CO
    CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • RT
    REVERSE THE DOOR INC
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +24%
  • EC
    EASTSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • TC
    TENT CITY HELPERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 19 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUART CHURCH OF CHRIST: $17,650 · OtherSTUART CHURCH OF CHRISTMARATHON CHURCH OF CHRIST: $10,400 · OtherMARATHON CHURCH OF CHRISTKEY WEST CHURCH OF CHRIST: $7,234 · OtherKEY WEST CHURCH OF CHRISTWITS END RESOURCES LLC: $5,500 · OtherWITS END RESOURCES LLCSEABROOK CHURCH OF CHRIST: $2,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY CITY CHURCH OF CHRIST: $2,000 · OtherHialeah Church of Christ: $1,900 · Other+5 more: $1,500 · OtherNATIONAL EVANGELISM WITH SOJOURNERS INC: $10,020 · ReligionNATIONAL EVANGELISM WITH S…BREAD OF LIFE: $10,000 · ReligionBREAD OF LIFEEASTSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST INC: $1,200 · ReligionEASTSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST …CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER: $10,021 · Public Safety & DisasterCHURCHES OF …REVERSE THE DOOR INC: $8,700 · Human ServicesREVERSE THE …TENT CITY HELPERS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTENT CITY HE…STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Health
Other$48,184Religion$21,220Public Safety & Disaster$10,021Human Services$9,700Health$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER: $10,021 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL EVANGELISM WITH SOJOURNERS INC: $10,020 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetREVERSE THE DOOR INC: $8,700 over 1y, 14% of budgetSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $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.

  • Who funds CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EVANGELISM WITH SOJOURNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD OF LIFE ↗
  • Who funds REVERSE THE DOOR INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds TENT CITY HELPERS INC ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Tamara a Kirkbride Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tamara a Kirkbride Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Star of the Sea Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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