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Gerald a & Karen a Kolschowsky 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.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
154
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of GERALD A & KAREN A KOLSCHOWSKY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 154 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 154 grants below total $10,645,165 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,651,365 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,006,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k78 grants · $207k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.5M
$8,300
Median grant
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation$5,000,000
ISUF (CSRL Project)$450,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation$325,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation$325,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation$325,000
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation$325,000
Michigan State University$250,000
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago$250,000
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago$250,000
Michigan State University$220,700
Michigan State University$162,500
Lutheran Child and Family Services of IL$150,000
University of Oxford$126,575
Bridge Communities, Inc.$100,000
Mosaic$100,000
02Your 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$34M · 102 repeat orgs$516k to everyone else

102 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
22

Total granted

$34M
$290k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.

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

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

  • SM
    Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation
    5× · 2019–2024 · $21M
  • I(
    ISUF (CSRL Project)
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M
  • MS
    Michigan State University
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M

Funded once

  • FS
    Family Shelter Service, Inc.
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • DC
    DuPage Community Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    one grant, 2021 · $32k

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

03Your field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2024.

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 20192024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation — $21,145,000 · OtherSarasota Memorial Healthcare FoundationISUF (CSRL Project) — $1,725,000 · OtherMichigan State University — $1,483,200 · Other+131 more — $9,820,140 · Other+131 more
Other$34,173,340

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their 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.

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 134 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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