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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 it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$197kHuman Services$116kEducation$91kHealth$81kAnimals$59kPublic Benefit$22kRecreation & Sports$20kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MT
MN
NY
OR
SD
IA
IN
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
MS
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
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.

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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Conservancy; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEARSON LAKES ART CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 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 budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $50 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 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jane Bekins Meginnis Foundation % Richard Kunz funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane Bekins Meginnis Foundation % Richard Kunz. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Columbia Arts: 8% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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

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