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John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation

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.

$15k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 15
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$239k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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$14k0%
FY202315$15k7%
FY202215$13k20%
FY202115$10k7%
FY202014$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$20kHealth$13kCrime & Legal$11kInternational$7kAnimals$5kCivil Rights$4kHuman Services$4kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
CA
VA
DC
LA
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Pets Alive Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarbridge Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Alliance for Austin Musicians: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZilker Botanical Garden Conservancy Non-Profit Corporation: $3,433 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Police Accountability Project Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHilarity for Charity Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArray Alliance Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHearing Health Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 17.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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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How do I get to John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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 M Kalny II Charitable Foundation

How much does John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation give?
John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $15,074 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Health (19%), Crime & Legal (16%).
Who are John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($5k), Austin Pets Alive Inc ($5k), Equal Justice Initiative ($5k).
Does John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation 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 M Kalny II Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation based?
John M Kalny II Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

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 21 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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