· Private foundation
The William Kistler Charitable Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY INC | $20,000 |
| TIBET HOUSE INC | $18,000 |
| SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| TIBETAN ARTS AND LITERATURE INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK NORTH AMERICA | $10,000 |
| MAYSLES DOCUMENTARY CENTER | $7,500 |
| PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BAHAMAS HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $2,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DILGO KHYENTSE FELLOWSHIP | $1,500 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC | $1,000 |
| WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS INC | $1,000 |
| THE MERWIN CONSERVANCY INC | $600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Our fundamental mission is to bring scholarly ideas to the world. we publish books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the human conversation. we embrace the highest standards in our…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pbs Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tibetan Arts & Literature Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds TIBET HOUSE US INC ↗
- Who funds Tibetan Arts & Literature Initiative ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
- Who funds MAYSLES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Bahamas Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Words Without Borders Inc ↗
- Who funds MERWIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The William Kistler Charitable Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.