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Joseph a & Laura L Klunk Family Foundation at a glance

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Joseph a & Laura L Klunk Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$317kHealth$114kHuman Services$51kPhilanthropy$43kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$37,000
CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC DBA$25,000
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC$20,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAGDALENE HOUSE OF CHARLESTON: $14k → 12%MAGDALENE HOUSE OF CHARLESTON: $10k → 12%MY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $10k → 12%CHILDREN FIRST: $10k → 12%MY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$349k · 5 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$349k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+35%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MU
    Miami University Foundation
    4× · 2020–2025 · $147k · revenue +14%
  • MU
    MIAMI UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $105k
  • CH
    CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • AH
    ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • AD
    ABCCM DOWNTOWN CRISIS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • AS
    All Souls Counseling Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +162%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Saint Marys School

Saint Marys School in Raleigh NC is an independent college-preparatory girls boarding and day school dedicated to academic excellence and personal achievement for grades 9 - 12.

Education
2
Alabaster House

Alabaster House is a faith-based 12 step recovery program that offers women a way out of addiction and a way back into society

Health
3
Shalom House Ministries Inc

Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.

Health
4
House of Hope of Nc Inc

Home, Counseling & Support for Hurting Teens

Education
5
Coastal Horizons Center Inc

To provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities.

Health
6
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
7
Coastal Educational Foundation

To provide support to coastal carolina university through charitable donations received primarily from individual donors.

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8
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
9
Charlotte Christian School

Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.

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10
Carolina Childrens Home

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families

Human Services
11
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
12
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Quest in Recovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Miami University Foundation: $147,400 · EducationMiami University FoundationASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationASHLEY HALL FOUNDATIONCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATIONMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITYChristian Schools Inc dba Goodpasture Christian School: $25,000 · OtherChristian Schools Inc dba Goodpastur…ABCCM DOWNTOWN CRISIS MINISTRY: $20,000 · OtherABCCM DOWNTOWN CRISIS MINISTRYTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $10,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $5,100 · OtherCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS …All Souls Counseling Center: $15,000 · HealthAll Souls Counselin…WAKE UP CAROLINA: $10,000 · HealthWAKE UP CAROLINAQUEST IN RECOVERY: $5,000 · HealthQUEST IN RECOVERYMAGDALENE HOUSE OF CHARLESTON: $24,000 · Human ServicesMAGDALENE…My Sister's House Inc: $13,000 · Human ServicesMy Sister…CHILDREN FIRST INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN …THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $27,667 · PhilanthropyWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$187,400Other$172,600Health$90,000Human Services$47,000Philanthropy$27,667Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiami University Foundation: $147,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $27,667 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Schools Inc dba Goodpasture Christian School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGDALENE HOUSE OF CHARLESTON: $24,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll Souls Counseling Center: $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA RESCUE MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAKE UP CAROLINA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetQUEST IN RECOVERY: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph a & Laura L Klunk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph a & Laura L Klunk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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