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Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation

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.

$46k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,500
Organizations funded a year
10 to 34
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$536k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$46k14%
FY202314$40k7%
FY202234$36k47%
FY202120$16k55%
FY202017$17k41%
FY201910$152k40%
FY201813$13k46%
FY201719$33kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$166kReligion$93kHuman Services$21kEducation$19kHealth$18kInternational$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc$160,00030%
Samaritan's Purse$13,00040%
The Salvation Army$11,0906n/a
Breakthrough T1d$10,10020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$9,00050%
Wesley House Family Services Inc$7,27630%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$6,00020%
Michelle's Foundation Inc$5,10021%
Key West Retired Catholic Priests Fund Inc$5,0001n/a
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc$2,00030%
The Community House$1,00010%
Xavier University$1,00010%
Covenant House Illinois Inc$72220%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$60020%
Mercy Ships International$50010%
Caring Network Nfp$50010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$50010%
St Josephs Indian School$4153n/a
Marianist Mission$3754n/a
Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc$35020%
Priests for Life$30020%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$23420%
St Anthony Foundation$2252n/a
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$20020%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$20010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$12220%
Christian Relief Services Inc$10010%
Association of the Miraculous Medal$1001n/a
The American Legion$10010%
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order$1001n/a
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity$501n/a
Society of the Divine Word$351n/a
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$2510%
Society of the Little Flower$251n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$2510%
Seton Heritage Ministries Inc$251n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWesley House Family Services Inc: $7,276 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMichelle's Foundation Inc: $5,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHousing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXavier University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Illinois Inc: $722 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaring Network Nfp: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPriests for Life: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $234 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $122 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Relief Services Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

B & R Charitable Foundation IncTN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · The Whelan Family Foundation Inc · The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation · David E & Mary C Gallo Foundation · The Halprin Family Foundation B · Friel Foundation Inc · The Salem Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation

How much does Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation give?
Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $45,818 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Religion (26%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Inc ($160k), Samaritan's Purse ($13k), The Salvation Army ($11k).
Does Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include B & R Charitable Foundation Inc, The Whelan Family Foundation Inc, The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation based?
Gerald J Kostelny and Carolyn C Kostelny Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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