· Private foundation
Thomas Kinkade Museum Dba Kinkade Family Foundation
The objective of the thomas kinkade museum is to conserve and archive the art and artifacts of thomas kinkade, to educate the public about the art and life of thomas kinkade by exhibiting the art of thomas kinkade within educational organizations and museums around the world, and to provide grants to other charitable organizations in…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Largely a single collection — about 97% of reported assets are Art Collection.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NANEW ART DEALERS ALLIANCE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $41k · revenue +527%
- FOFRIENDS OF CASA GENERACION3× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +71% · 62% of their budget
- MOMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +30%
Funded once
United States Artists Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -24%- BBBRIDGE BUILDERS NFP INCone grant, 2017 · $7k · 75% of their budget
- YBYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -28%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
NIAD promotes creative expression, independence, dignity and community integration for people with disabilities.
The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Our mission at Californians for the Arts is to ensure that the arts are accessible to all Californians; are an ongoing part of the public dialogue and to encourage Californians to care about the arts as a critical component of their own…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives and the most unlike its peers is Bridge Builders International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 26 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 NEW ART DEALERS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA GENERACION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) ↗
- Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS NFP INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS ↗
- Who funds YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Local Color ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The Yelp Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Thomas Kinkade Museum Dba Kinkade Family 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 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.
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