How much does Kainz Family Foundation give?

Kainz Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $179,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Kainz Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (70%), Health (12%), Environment (3%).

Who are Kainz Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jeffrey Pride Foundation Inc ($66k), Operation Smile Inc ($40k), Mindful Waste ($32k).

Does Kainz Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kainz Family 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 Kainz Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Barrington Area Comm Foundation Inc, Yellow-Crowned Foundation.

Where is Kainz Family Foundation based?

Kainz Family Foundation is based in IL.

Kainz Family Foundation

Kainz Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kainz 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.

$180k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$174k

Largest

01What it funds

0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MHealth$206kEnvironment$56kAnimals$34kEducation$28kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $6k
$50k–250k1 grant · $174k

$5,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Donor Advised Funds (National Philanthropic Trust)	$174,000
NPH USA	$5,500
Barrington Youth & Family Services	$450

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 19 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+32%

Still filing today

68%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsOther

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

JP
JEFFREY PRIDE FOUNDATION INC
5× · 2017–2023 · $66k · revenue +231%
OS
OPERATION SMILE INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +60%
SA
SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY
2× · 2017–2018 · $23k · revenue +67%

Funded once

AG
ADVOCATE GOOD SHEPARD HOSPITAL
one grant, 2017 · $40k
HC
HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2017 · $10k
CC
CUBA CARES
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health

Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services

Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment

Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education

Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education

Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa; the most unlike its peers is Mindful Waste. 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

29 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. 29 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/29

Grantees still filing

20/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,532,373Health$73,320International$45,500Human Services$32,900Animals$27,500Education$24,000Environment$23,500

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

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL22.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Barrington Area Comm Foundation Inc · Yellow-Crowned Foundation · Full Circle Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon 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 Kainz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kainz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home