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Kazrus 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL | $200,000 |
| NORTH POINT MINISTRIES | $175,000 |
| LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $100,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $100,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $75,000 |
| AKROTECH HIGH SCHOOL | $40,309 |
| ADRIAN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ONE BISTRO INC | $5,000 |
| SILVER LAKE CONFERENCE CENTER | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KIKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $637k · revenue +112%
- LMLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $413k · revenue +30%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $406k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- NPNORTH POINT PRODUCTIONS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -44%
- BBBUDDY BASEBALL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -17%
- TKTHE KIMBERLY HOMEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
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.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
It is our mission to demonstrate the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting and enhancing the safety and well-being of persons from all backgrounds and across the continuum of life through the effective integration of the…
Heaven's family's mission is to advance the kingdom of the lord jesus christ. we do that by strategically linking kingdom needs and opportunities with resources that the lord has entrusted to those who love him. through god-given…
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.
A family for every child in our lifetime.
Hope & home creates ways for amazing people to change the lives of children in foster care. as a nondenominational christian charity, hope & home trains, certifies, and actively supports foster families across the state of colorado.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Certsgroup Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
66 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. 66 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 KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Akrotech High School ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Akros Middle School ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Edge Learning Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN VALLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NO LONGER BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FILL THIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Cure Childhood Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Drake House Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF EDUCATION IN PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICAS FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds URBAN VISION ↗
- Who funds NORTH POINT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Akron Community Foundation · The Choate Foundation (Fka Choate Bridges Foundation) · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Christ Foundation · Assurant Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Kazrus 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.
- The Kimberly Home — 0% of income from government
- 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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Find your warmest path to Kazrus Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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