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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.

$59k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$59k0%
FY202313$62k0%
FY202213$65k15%
FY202112$60k8%
FY202011$54k18%
FY20199$53k0%
FY20189$51k0%
FY201711$56kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$101kFood & Nutrition$80kPhilanthropy$80kYouth Development$56kAnimals$51kHealth$40kEnvironment$34kPublic Benefit$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($207k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWebster Dudley Food Share Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Cat Connection Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetWebster Lake Association Inc: $34,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetLife-Skills Inc: $33,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Veterinary Medical Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Fels Family FoundationMA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fels Family Foundation · The Janet Malser Humanities Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc

How much does John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc give?
John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $59,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Philanthropy (17%).
Who are John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Webster Dudley Food Share Inc ($80k), Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley Inc ($40k), Community Cat Connection Inc ($40k).
Does John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fels Family Foundation, The Janet Malser Humanities Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc based?
John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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