· Private foundation
Walter Kaner Children's Foundation Inc
THE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ECONOMICALLY AND PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED CHILDREN THROUGHOUT THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA BY SEEKING TO RAISE SOCIAL AWARENESS.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL-STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP | $40,000 |
| LEAGUE OF YES | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +74% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- SMST MARYS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +74%
- CGCAMP GOOD MOURNING INC4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +197%
- QMQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NY GRANTone grant, 2021 · $32k
- TCTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +4%
- FFFAST FEET RUNNING AND ATHLETICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +97%
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.
The southampton fresh air home is a nonprofit residential center offering summer camp sessions and year-round programs for children and young adults with physical disabilities. our mission is to provide an enriching, recreational and…
Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…
Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Little flower is committed to improving the well-being of the children, families, and individuals with developmental disabilities across nyc and long island so they can reach their full potential. little flower transforms caring into…
Provide opportunities for children & young adults with disabilities to play miracle league baseball, regardless of their abilities, promote community support and sponsorship of a miracle league and promote the construction of special…
Female strong is a 501c3 non-profit organization and a community of committed individuals that offer hands-on programs, mentorship, and experiences that build confidence in middle and high school girls. we support the inclusion of all…
Brooke industries, inc.'s mission is to provide high quality, innovative service and choice to the rehabilitation and business communities. our motto is to "exceed the expectations" for our consumers, employees and customers.
The mission of the foundation for abilities first ny is to garner the financial resources necessary to meet the programmatic interests and to assure the sustainability of the mission of abilities first, inc. fafny will establish a stable…
Complete playground is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing inclusive child, teen, and family development by bringing together neurodivergent and neurotypical children, teenagers, and their families in a shared environment of…
The league school provides educational (ages 5-21) and mental health programs for students with intellectual, developmental and/or psychiatric disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Child Center of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Queens Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Walter Kaner Children's Foundation Inc 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.
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
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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