· Private foundation
Coussens Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fair Underwriters Inc | $12,045 |
| Humane Society of Scott County | $5,000 |
| Buffalo Food Pantry | $4,000 |
| Pull For You Promotion | $3,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $3,000 |
| Friends of Off Road Cycling | $2,000 |
| Iowa State Uni Extension | $2,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $1,000 |
| Metal 4 Valor | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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 +67% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FUFAIR UNDERWRITERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +60%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +83%
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 1042× · 2021–2022 · $17k · revenue +89% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- SSSilver Spurs Saddle Clubone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SCScott County Extension Servicesone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Colorado Kitty Coalition's (CKC) current purpose/mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home cats in need. Through a network of dedicated foster homes, we provide them with love, safety and a chance for a loving home. We commit to…
we rescue last chance shelter dogs that are scheduled to be euthanized
To support the Douglas County K-9 Units efforts by raising funds to purchase dogs, equipment and supplies, care for retired K-9 officers, and to inspire a movement to educate the public on the human value of these heroic animals.
Kool Kats main purpose is to rescue unwanted felines from the area shelters and find them permanent homes. We also have handouts to educate the public on spaying and neutering their pets...cats and dogs alike!! We found homes for over 600…
The kershaw county humane society is dedicated to providing food, housing and medical care to all lost or homeless animals. our goal is to reunite pets with their owners and to address the root causes of animal abuse and overpopulation…
to assist veterans in obtaining service animals
Reduce the homeless animal population in the Greater KC area by subsidizing spay/neuter surgery for pet owners who cannot afford the cost.
Operation Johnson Kitty (OJK) traps, neuters, and returns feral, stray, & community cats. When we have available fosters & space, and sponsors for medical care, we foster and adopt out friendly, socialized cats.
We rescue orphaned and abandoned neonatal kittens.
Our mission is to resuce dogs and cats from the street. to spay or neuter, innoculate and care for them until homes are found. in addition, the second part of our mission is to educate the public ont he importance of spaying and neutering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is METAL4VALOR Inc. 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 16 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 FAIR UNDERWRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SCOTT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 104 ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES BICYCLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN KITTEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds K 9 Kindness Rescue Inc ↗
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.
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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 Coussens 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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