· Private foundation
John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of JOHN J AND ELIZABETH M KUNKEL & FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRI VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WEBSTER DUDLEY | $10,000 |
| WEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN WORCESTER COUNTY REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY CAT CONNECTION INC | $5,000 |
| WEBSTER LAKE ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $2,000 |
| MSPCA-ANGELL | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| THE VETERANS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE TOYS FOR TOTS | $2,000 |
| BLESSED BACKPACK BRIGADE | $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 (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WDWEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +91%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +94%
- CCCOMMUNITY CAT CONNECTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AVAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +19%
- ASALL SAINTS ACADEMY SPORTS PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ISIT STARTS AT HOME INCone grant, 2021 · $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.
Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
The animal welfare league of montgomery county (awlmc) mission is to improve animal welfare in montgomery county, maryland by operating a no-kill shelter for adoptable cats and promoting responsible pet ownership.
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
To advance the practice of swine veterinary medicine.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
We protect animals, provide a safe haven, and promote innovative programs and services to help both people and animals in need throughout berks county.
To promote humane treatment of animals, operate the animal shelter, and assist with the adoption of animals.
To help adoptive dogs find a permanent home.
Devoted to the rescue and care of sick, injured or homeless animals and education of the public regarding spaying and neutering to avoid and reduce overpopulation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is American Veterinary Medical Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 WEBSTER DUDLEY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEBSTER-DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE-SKILLS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL 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.
Open a dossier: Fels Family Foundation · The Janet Malser Humanities Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Life-Skills Inc — 91% of income from government
- Webster Lake Association Inc — 20% of income from government
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.
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