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Kassouf Family Foundation Inc

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.

$616k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$436k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Religion$854kEducation$632kArts & Culture$49kHousing & Shelter$10kEnvironment$10kFood & Nutrition$9kHuman Services$7kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $436k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE$436,000
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY$80,000
ST MARY'S CHURCH$42,000
ST JOHN XXIII PARISH$10,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$6,000
THOUSAND ISLAND PARK LANDMARK SOCIETY$5,500
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY$5,500
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN$5,000
ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM$5,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION$5,000
THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST$2,500
THOUSAND ISLAND PARK YACHT CLUB$2,000
DIOCESE OF OGDENSBURG NEW YORK$2,000
NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM FUND$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE: $3k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE: $3k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Kassouf Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Kassouf Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.2% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 20 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
    6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +41%
  • MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +5%
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • DC
    Densmore Church Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -68%
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME JRSR HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k

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

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

2
Milwaukee Public Museum Endowment Fund

Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.

3
Museum of the American Revolution

The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

5
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
7
The Mariners' Museum

The mariners' museum and park connects people to the world's waters, because through the waters - through our shared maritime heritage - we are connected to one another.

Arts & Culture
8
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
10
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
11
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Public Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Densmore Church Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CURSILLO IN CHRISTIANITY OF THE ARC HDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE — $736,000 · OtherCURSILLO IN CHRISTIANITY OF THE ARC HDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEEST MARY'S CHURCH — $53,500 · OtherST MARY'S CHURCHST JOHN XXIII PARISH — $38,500 · Other+14 more — $56,550 · Other+14 moreCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $588,500 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITYMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $39,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $23,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM — $7,000 · Arts & CultureDensmore Church Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $3,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $9,000 · Food & NutritionCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC — $6,500 · EnvironmentRIVER HOSPITAL INC — $6,000 · Health
Other$884,550Education$627,500Arts & Culture$45,500Food & Nutrition$9,000Human Services$7,000Environment$6,500Health$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $588,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER HOSPITAL INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLAND PARK YACHT CLUB INC — $5,500 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetDensmore Church Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC
  • Who funds THE ANTIQUE BOAT MUSEUM
  • Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds RIVER HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds THOUSAND ISLAND PARK YACHT CLUB INC
  • Who funds Densmore Church Inc
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds The Army Historical Foundation Inc
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION

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.

Northern New York Community Foundation IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northern New York Community Foundation Inc · Andrew & Jeanine McNally Charitable Foundation · Twin Trees Foundationinc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Kassouf Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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