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TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION
To provide tickets for various events to underprivilieged children.
$6.8M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
underprivilegedcfklife-changingdoorwaysunifiedbecome healthyemergency
2019
underprivilegedapccdetroit palsocial-emotionaleducational culturalhigh-quality out-of-schoolout-of-school learning
2020
underprivilegedpoughkeepsienuevoguardianpoororganizedyouth sports
2021
underprivilegedall-starsminneapolis parkrecreation boardheal teachvocationaltennis
2022
rutgersjewish boardsdusdgrantmakingmprbpassportready
2023
shieldsclark parkbsfmonitoringhundredsvenicenycdoe
2024
unitykid powerbaseballdreamersguaranteed tuitionglobal citizenslatinas
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $6,806,385.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$441k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il
Provide therapeutic services to youth in educational, community, & residential care settings.
Human Services
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Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
Education
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Community Youth Services
Empowers youth at-risk and their families to meet goals for safety, stability, belonging and success by providing a continuum of individualized services and advocacy.
Human Services
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Youthlink
To support and empower young people on their journey to self-reliance.
Human Services
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Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Human Services
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The Center for Youth Services Inc
Counseling, Prevention, School Based, Workforce, and Runaway Homeless Services for youth.
Human Services
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Youth Homes
The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.
Human Services
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Childrens Choice Child Care Service Inc
Childrens Choice facilitates the positive development of children through our holistic approach to out-of-school-time programming that supports families.
Human Services
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United Children's Services of
Children's services
Human Services
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Big Brothers Big Sisters
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Youth Development
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The Boys and Girls Clubs
Boys & girls clubs of metropolitan baltimore (bgcmb) provides youth development programs and services for youth ages 6 to 18 during the critical out-of-school time hours. our nine club locations are community-based and led by paid,…
Youth Development
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Child Care Associates
To assist family successes through excellence in comprehensive child care and development services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Encouragement Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Specialized Alternatives for. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%31/890
the rest of the field
11%
206,134/1,818,675
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.
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.
The Grable FoundationPA58× affinity40 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern · Poise Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The Heinz Endowments · McElhattan Foundation · Youthprise · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · Staunton Farm 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.
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Find your warmest path to Tickets for Kids Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines