North Dakota · Private foundation
John a Kozel Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $435k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations John a Kozel Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $20k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $16k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $18,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Common Hope | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Heartview Foundation | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Central Dakota Humane Society | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Abused Adult Resource Center | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Furry Friends Rockin' Rescue Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Alfonso Mission | $3,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Ministry on the Margins | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $18,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Common Hope | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Heartview Foundation | $6,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Central Dakota Humane Society | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Abused Adult Resource Center | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| St Josephs Indian School | $5,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Furry Friends Rockin' Rescue Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Alfonso Mission | $3,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Ministry on the Margins | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dream Center Bismarck | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Childs Hope Learning Center | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Mountain Plains Youth Works | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brave the Shave | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Zachs Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Womens Care Center | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northern Lights Council of the Boy Scouts of America Inc | $400 | 4 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John a Kozel Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About John a Kozel Charitable Trust
- How much does John a Kozel Charitable Trust give?
- John a Kozel Charitable Trust reported 21 grants totaling $20,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John a Kozel Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (33%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are John a Kozel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($22k), Catholic Relief Services ($18k), Common Hope ($8k).
- Does John a Kozel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John a Kozel Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John a Kozel Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, North Dakota Community Foundation, Missouri Slope Areawide United Way.
- Where is John a Kozel Charitable Trust based?
- John a Kozel Charitable Trust is based in ND.
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