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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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. Its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
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

  • 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 +308%
  • SS
    SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -7%
  • O
    OOBIE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · 100% of their budget
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; 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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOOBIE: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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
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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 This is Kari & Philip's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from This is Kari & Philip's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% 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, 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 13 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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