· Private foundation
Ubuntu Kdce 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAMBALE MAGNET SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHIKUMBUSO | $5,000 |
| THE DREAM PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC | $5,000 |
| HORIZONS-NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CAMP BLUE SKIES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against +100% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +163%
- TDTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +303%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- WIWIKS-USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +100%
- CPCORNERSTONE PROJECT INCone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -89%
- DHDAVID'S HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +223%
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.
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.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
Camp Casco builds community for families affected by childhood cancer in New England through free camps and social opportunities.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Children's services
Oliverian is a non-profit, alternative, college-prep boarding school for adolescents who have not thrived in traditional settings. we fill the gap between traditional and therapeutic schools, providing the right mix of support and guided…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Blue Skies Foundation ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds WIKS-USA INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ubuntu Kdce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ubuntu Kdce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Dream Program Inc: 100% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
- The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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