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Kcrn Family Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NC | $4,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $3,000 |
| THE SENTENCING PROJECT | $3,000 |
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| DIAPER BANK OF NC | $1,500 |
| WILMS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF UNION CITY NC | $1,000 |
| LET ME RUN INC | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +99% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE5× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +101%
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +48%- ACANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +132%
Funded once
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +65%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2017 · $4k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +155%
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.
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To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
Rally foundation, a 501(c) (3) non profit organization, empowers volunteers across the country to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research to find better treatments with fewer long term side effects and, ultimately, cures.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Let Me Run Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 24 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 EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHAPEL HILL INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The Compassionate Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Megs Smile Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LET ME RUN INC ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH 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.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Kcrn 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.
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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