· Private foundation
The Keehn Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $35,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $30,000 |
| DURANGO FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| POWER OF ONE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREATER DC DIAPER BANK | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| MANNA FOOD CENTER | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD | $5,000 |
| DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $5,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 18 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 FY2024, 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
- WTWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +0%
- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $162k · revenue +96%
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- AFA FARM LESS ORDINARYone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +7%
- MEMCPS EDUCATONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $12k
- NGNational Gallery of Artgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +29%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trust for the National Mall and the most unlike its peers is Nami Montgomerty County (Md) Inc. 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.
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 43 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 41 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 WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Power of One Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds DURANGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NAMI MONTGOMERTY COUNTY (MD) INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds A FARM LESS ORDINARY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 The Keehn Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Archaeological Institute of America — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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