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Donald L Koch Charitable Trust

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.

$247k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$505kRecreation & Sports$260kReligion$78kArts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$4kHuman Services$1kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST$155,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$51,000
PACE ACADEMY$20,000
ADVOCATES FOR BALANCE AT CHAUTAUQUA$10,000
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST$7,500
THE CALVIN COOLRIDGE FOUNDATION$2,000
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HOUSE AT CHAUTAUQUA$1,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN: $500 → 7%ADVOCATES FOR BALANCE AT CHAUTAUQUA: $10k → 13%CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HOUSE AT CHAUTAUQUA: $1k → 18%FURMAN UNIVERSITY: $18k → 10%MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $10k → 14%STETSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: $20k → 11%TRINITY COLLEGE: $55k → 11%ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE: $2k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100 → 17%WAKE FOREST: $155k → 15%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $55k → 13%TOUCH THE TOP INC: $3k → 7%NO BARRIERS: $1k → 11%ASHBROOK FOUNDATION: $21k → 11%THE CALVIN COOLRIDGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%ADVOCATES FOR BALANCE AT CHAUTAUQUA: $10k → 13%CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HOUSE AT CHAUTAUQUA: $1k → 18%MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $1k → 14%STETSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: $15k → 11%TRINITY COLLEGE: $51k → 11%WAKE FOREST: $55k → 15%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $45k → 13%TOUCH THE TOP INC: $1k → 7%ASHBROOK FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HOUSE AT CHAUTAUQUA: $1k → 18%CALVIN COOLIDGE-AMITY: $3k → 14%STETSON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: $10k → 11%WAKE FOREST: $30k → 15%PACE ACADEMY: $75k → 13%ASHBROOK FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CALVIN COOLIDGE-AMITY: $1k → 14%STETSON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 12%FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: $10k → 11%WAKE FOREST: $20k → 15%PACE ACADEMY: $60k → 13%FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST: $8k → 11%PACE ACADEMY: $35k → 13%PEACE HAVEN: $3k → 11%PACE ACADEMY: $20k → 13%THE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS: $5k → 11%PACE ACADEMY: $20k → 13%PEACE HAVEN: $1k → 11%PACE ACADEMY: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$873k · 13 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$873k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+33%

Still filing today

54%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther

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

  • PA
    PACE ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +44%
  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $106k · revenue +17%
  • WA
    WOODWARD ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +33%
  • TS
    THE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • EE
    E3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Trinity College

To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…

Education
3
Xavier University

Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…

Education
4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
Trinity Christian College Association

Provide a biblically informed liberal arts education to undergraduate and graduate college students. we strive to offer the highest quality of instruction to prepare students for excellence in further study and careers beyond trinity. all…

Education
6
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
7
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stetson University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PACE ACADEMY INC — $220,000 · EducationPACE ACADEMY INCTRINITY COLLEGE — $106,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGEWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · EducationWOODWARD ACADEMY INCSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC — $56,000 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $18,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST — $260,000 · OtherWAKE FORESTFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST — $62,500 · OtherFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTASHBROOK FOUNDATION — $22,600 · OtherASHBROOK FOUNDATION+8 more — $30,316 · Other+8 moreAdvocates For Balance At Chautauqua Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 · ReligionE3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INC — $2,000 · ReligionFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $500 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 · Health
Education$500,000Other$375,416Arts & Culture$20,000Religion$6,000International$500Health$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPACE ACADEMY INC — $220,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $106,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC — $56,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocates For Balance At Chautauqua Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetE3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PACE ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE
  • Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Advocates For Balance At Chautauqua Inc
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
  • Who funds THE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS
  • Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds E3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INC
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Donald L Koch Charitable Trust 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Stetson University Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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