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This is Kari & Philip's 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.

$361k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$546kHuman Services$275kHousing & Shelter$220kHealth$190kArts & Culture$100kCrime & Legal$100kFood & Nutrition$83k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UP ACADEMY INC$200,000
MIRACLE MESSAGES$70,000
UP ACADEMY INC$50,000
SEEC CORPORATION$25,000
UP ACADEMY INC$16,397
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $553k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $70k → 10%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $50k → 10%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%OOBIE: $100k → 10%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $50k → 10%NORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIG: $50k → 20%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $25k → 10%NORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIG: $33k → 20%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $25k → 10%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 7 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentCrime & LegalHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UA
    UP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educator
    2× · 2023–2024 · $316k · revenue +26%
  • MM
    MIRACLE MESSAGES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +575%
  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • JG
    JAIL GUITAR DOORSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +223%
  • SS
    SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -7%
  • O
    OOBIE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · 100% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

1
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Spark Microgrants Inc

Spark microgrants empowers communities to work together to create a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future.

International
9
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
10
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
11
In Our Backyards Inc

Ioby mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful civic leaders who plan, fund, and make positive change in their own neighborhoods.

Education
12
Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc

Ideas42 uses behavioral science - the science of human behavior - to improve lives, build better systems, and drive social change. we work across mutually reinforcing issue areas including: promoting access to quality post-secondary…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is Its From the Sole 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIRACLE MESSAGES — $220,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE MESSAGESJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INCOOBIE — $100,000 · Human ServicesOOBIENORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS — $83,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HEL…UP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educator — $316,397 · EducationUP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educ…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $127,500 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $100,000 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS+1 more — $2,500 · EducationSEEC — $150,000 · EmploymentSEECJAIL GUITAR DOORS — $100,000 · Crime & LegalPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureBIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATES OF NEW YORK — $40,000 · HealthITS FROM THE SOLE INC — $25,000 · Other
Human Services$553,000Education$546,397Employment$150,000Crime & Legal$100,000Arts & Culture$100,000Health$40,000Other$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educator — $316,397 over 2y, 20% of budgetMIRACLE MESSAGES — $220,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSEEC — $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $127,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAIL GUITAR DOORS — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOOBIE — $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetNORTH BROOKLYN COALITION OF NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS — $83,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATES OF NEW YORK — $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetITS FROM THE SOLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 This is Kari & Philip's Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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