· Private foundation
John a Kozel Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINISTRY ON THE MARGINS | $1,500 |
| AID INC | $1,500 |
| HEARTVIEW FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| ABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER | $1,500 |
| FURRY FRIENDS ROCKIN RESCUE | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $1,000 |
| YOUTHWORKS | $1,000 |
| SAN ALFONSO MISSION | $1,000 |
| DREAM CENTER BISMARCK | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL DAKOTA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| HEAVEN'S HELPER SOUP CAFE | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPH INDIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST BERNARD MISSION SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +39%- HFHEARTVIEW FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +162%
- CDCENTRAL DAKOTA HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Children's services
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
The organization provides compassionate care for disabled children and young adults. in the tradition of the franciscan missionaries of mary, a catholic order of religious women, serving those most in need, we share in a ministry of…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
To fund the program and services of hospice of the nothwest to ensure dignified and compassionate care is available to anyone coping with a life-limiting diagnosis.one size doesn't always fit all, especially when it comes to quality of…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is Brave the Shave. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
- Who funds HEARTVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DAKOTA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ABUSED ADULT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FURRY FRIENDS ROCKIN' RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ALFONSO MISSION ↗
- Who funds Ministry on the Margins ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds Dream Center Bismarck ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PLAINS YOUTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds CHILDS HOPE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZACHS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRAVE THE SHAVE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 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.
Open a dossier: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Missouri Slope Areawide United Way · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Great Plains Food Bank · The Barry Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 John a Kozel Charitable Trust 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.
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.