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EJ and MELONEY KUBICK FAMILY FOUNDATION

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$55kArts & Culture$32kYouth Development$32kHuman Services$28kHousing & Shelter$16kPublic Benefit$13kHealth$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Life Camp USA$25,000
Hunt 4 Life Foundation$14,000
Special Olympics$1,500
Almost Home Animal Shelter$1,500
Active Minds$1,500
321 Coffee$1,500
Medical Care Access Coalition$1,500
OccuPaws Guide Dog Assn$1,000
Healing Transitions$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Backpack Blessings$1,000
Hilarity for Charity$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Homes for our Troops$1,000
Peaceful Valley Donkey Sanctuary$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Road Home: $3k → 10%Canine Companions: $1k → 15%The Road Home: $3k → 10%The Road Home: $1k → 10%Kids Matter Inc: $1k → 17%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$178k · 18 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
19

Total granted

$178k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+61%

Still filing today

56%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +29%
  • WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +107%
  • CURE INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • N
    NAMI
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • ED
    End Domestic Abuse WI
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

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.

1
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

2
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
3
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc

Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. the organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and…

Animals
6
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
7
United States War Dogs Association Inc

The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…

Animals
8
Helping Paws Inc

Helping paws, inc. furthers people's independence and quality of life through the use of assistance dogs.

Human Services
9
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
10
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals
11
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
12
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bruces Legacy Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 48 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Hunt 4 Life Foundation — $49,000 · OtherHunt 4 Life FoundationWAAGR — $16,500 · OtherWAAGRHunt 4 Life — $12,000 · OtherHunt 4 LifeAlmost Home Animal Shelter — $7,500 · OtherAlmost Home Animal ShelterLutheran Social Services — $7,000 · Other+30 more — $41,250 · Other+30 moreLIFECAMP USA INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFECAMP USA INCMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesKIDS MATTER INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $4,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD — $4,000 · AnimalsALMOST HOME FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Animals+1 more — $50 · AnimalsHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $5,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE CARYING PLACE INC — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterCURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,000 · International
Other$133,250Youth Development$30,000Arts & Culture$15,000Human Services$11,500Animals$9,050Housing & Shelter$8,500International$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIFECAMP USA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARYING PLACE INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetActive Minds Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALMOST HOME FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS MATTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEND DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN THE WI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $1,000 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 LIFECAMP USA INC
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds THE CARYING PLACE INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC
  • Who funds OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds MEDICAL CARE ACCESS COALITION INC
  • Who funds 321 FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Active Minds Inc
  • Who funds ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
  • Who funds HILARITY FOR CHARITY INC
  • Who funds Bruces Legacy Inc
  • Who funds KIDS MATTER 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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 EJ and MELONEY KUBICK 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to EJ and MELONEY KUBICK FAMILY FOUNDATION?

Find your warmest path to EJ and MELONEY KUBICK FAMILY FOUNDATION through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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