· Private foundation
Kampe Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $12,000 |
| VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC | $7,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PAONIA LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| HALF MOON BAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS ATHLETICS CORP | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| CABRILLO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| POLARIS | $5,000 |
| USO | $5,000 |
| PALESTINIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE RIGHT WAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- TLTHE LEARNING COUNCIL3× · 2020–2022 · $196k · revenue +230% · 28% of their budget
- WEWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +39%
- PPPOLARIS PROJECT4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To connect young people to the wonder and science of the natural world, igniting self-discovery and inspiring stewardship of our planet.
Our mission is to empower youth using outdoor adventure learning to help them achieve their personal potential. Through outings in the mountains and on the sea, participants will develop a strong foundation for personal health and…
Rocky mountain youth corps engages young people in the outdoors, inspiring them to use their strengths and potential to lead healthy, productive lives. we teach responsibility for self, community, and environment through teamwork, service,…
LandPaths' mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities.
Offer unique outdoor education experiences to youth and adults. Since 1982 the organization has inspired a greater apprecation for the natural world; offers unique educational opportuntities to those who would not otheriwise experience…
The goals of woodcraft's nvision after school program are to decrease risk factors impinging on children and youth and to increase their chances for success in school and in life through youth development programs for low income and/or…
ESCC provides opportunities for at-risk, underserved youth, and young adults, from marginalized populations to experience and better understand their wilderness natural resources. ESCC provides programs that inform the general public about…
To develop youth and conserve natural resources for a resilient, sustainable, and equitable community.
Boojum institute for experiential education offers environmental education and leadership development programs for youth and adults. boojum's comprehensive experiential education programs-facilitated in all of the four major ecosystems.
We teach the health benefits of nature, promote outdoor recreation, and steward the places where we play.
Teens, inc. supports, educates, and empowers youth and their families to make healthy choices and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western Colorado Migrant and Rural Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 78 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 THE LEARNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD ↗
- Who funds VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HALF MOON BAY HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS ATHLETICS CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK VALLEY CREATIVE COALITION ↗
- Who funds Children of the Night ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds 4 Leg Adventures ↗
- Who funds NFRIA-WSERC CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Palestinian American Community Cent ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds The Rightway Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NFSIS ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTSIDE ↗
- Who funds BLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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: Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation · The Goodwin Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Kampe Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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