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Jane Bekins Meginnis Foundation % Richard Kunz

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172023.

Human Services$186kArts & Culture$183kAnimals$55kPublic Benefit$42kEducation$33kEnvironment$19kYouth Development$900Health$100Community Improvement$50Other$233k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $334k
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$108,980
HEROES AND HORSES$100,000
MITCHELL HOSPICE HOUSE$75,000
PARADISE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY$50,000
SAIL AHEAD$20,000
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 (FY17–23, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEROES AND HORSES: $100k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $50 → 17%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $50 → 26%HEROES AND HORSES: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $50 → 17%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $600 → 14%CENTER FOR SIOUXLAND FREEDOM: $22 → 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

AK
MT
MN
NY
OR
SD
IA
IN
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
MS
GA
TX

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$632k · 33 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
28

Total granted

$632k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+33%

Still filing today

55%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • KA
    KAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $180k · revenue +48%
  • PA
    Paradise Animal Welfare Society
    4× · 2017–2023 · $51k · revenue +24% · 44% of their budget
  • MU
    MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRINCIPIA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • F4
    FAVRE 4 HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • OA
    ORPHANED AND INJURED WILDLIFE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $1k

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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
3
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
4
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
7
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
8
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
9
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
10
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Jane Bekins Meginnis Foundation % Richard Kunz. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionGovernment Accountability R…Native Hawaiian Community D…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Fallen First Responder Supp…Senior Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Child and Family ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Education Equity LeadershipLand Conservation Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%54%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 64 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $118,980 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL — $20,100 · OtherRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOLST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL — $17,200 · OtherST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOLSOUTHWEST INDIAN FOUNDATION — $11,610 · OtherST BONAVENTURE INDIAN MISSION SCHOOL — $8,925 · Other+31 more — $57,643 · Other+31 moreHEROES AND HORSES INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesHEROES AND HORSES INCMITCHELL HOSPICE HOUSE — $75,000 · Human ServicesMITCHELL HOSPICE HOUSE+5 more — $872 · Human ServicesKAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION — $179,625 · Arts & CultureKAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION+3 more — $3,200 · Arts & CultureParadise Animal Welfare Society — $50,600 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $4,000 · Animals+1 more — $125 · AnimalsSailAhead Corporation — $20,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $12,300 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $9,400 · Public BenefitMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY — $19,000 · EducationOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $10,100 · EducationThe Principia Corporation — $3,000 · Education+3 more — $433 · EducationCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST — $12,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $6,780 · Environment+3 more — $480 · Environment
Other$234,458Human Services$185,872Arts & Culture$182,825Animals$54,725Public Benefit$41,700Education$32,533Environment$19,260

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMITCHELL HOSPICE HOUSE — $75,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetParadise Animal Welfare Society — $50,600 over 4y, 44% of budgetSailAhead Corporation — $20,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $12,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST — $12,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE — $10,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $9,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $6,780 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Principia Corporation — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVE SOUTHWEST UTAH — $180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOkoboji Protective Association — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE BEKINS MEGINNIS FOUNDATION % RICHARD KUNZ — $83 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION INC — $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO ENGLISH — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SIOUXLAND — $22 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $5 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 KAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC
  • Who funds MITCHELL HOSPICE HOUSE
  • Who funds Paradise Animal Welfare Society
  • Who funds SailAhead Corporation
  • Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST
  • Who funds OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
  • Who funds The Principia Corporation
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Partnership With Native Americans
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds COLUMBIA ARTS
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION

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.

ImpactassetsincMD12.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Jane Bekins Meginnis Foundation % Richard Kunz 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 · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Columbia Arts8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 64 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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