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Kengena 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $312k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IRVING BIBLE CHURCH | $60,000 |
| EIS FAMILY A38 | $30,000 |
| DAVID & ELLEN ROSS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| INTELLICHOICE | $25,000 |
| MY REFUGE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| GLORIOUS GENERATION FOREIGN MISSION | $20,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE IRVING FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $15,000 |
| ROUTE 21 | $15,000 |
| YWAM-AIIM PNEUMA SPRINGS | $12,000 |
| SERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF LIGHT - CASA LUZ | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MANY HELPING HANDS | $10,000 |
| ONE WORLD HEALTH | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of Kengena Foundation’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, 53% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 82% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- MRMy Refuge House5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +6%
- MHMANY HELPING HANDS5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +88%
- KCKaleo Collective4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +253% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- NSNEW SONG CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $15k
- LTLET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME INCone grant, 2022 · $12k
- IRINTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE DALLASone grant, 2020 · $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.
Mission work
One Way Ministries exists to reach impoverished, desperate and forgotten people groups with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a variety of venues including community outreach events, food and clothing distribution, construction projects,…
housing and feeding the homeless
Provide holistic and integrated service that address the diverse needs of vulnerable individuals and families experiencing instability as the result of domestic violence and /or homelessness.
Our mission is to share the life-changing message of the Gospel with those we encounter, with a primary focus on the people of Mexico. We are called to serve the hungry, the orphaned, the widowed, the abandoned, the addicted, the…
Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…
Ministry organization operating in Ethiopia. We provide foster care to kids abandoned to the street, including housing, food, clothing, education, a savings fund, spiritual nurturing. We also support families of kids in the community that…
Missionery outreach
To minister the gospel of jesus christ to poor people, leper colonies, and ethnic groups in sri lanka, israel, india, spain, and several eastern african nations that do not have access to christian churches.
Helping to Change the Cycle of Poverty through Education, Community Support and Urgent Medical Care to a new life Cycle of Hope Meeting practical needs to individuals in poverty to improve their life circumstances whether it be for health…
Homes 4 Homes brings safe housing to people in developing countries. We empower local leaders and construction teams to build homes for at risk members of their own communities. Safe and secure housing positively impacts multiple…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Peak Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 54 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 My Refuge House ↗
- Who funds EIS FAMILY A38 ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds MANY HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds Crisis Ministries ↗
- Who funds Kaleo Collective ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS & CO ↗
- Who funds Peak Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTELLICHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds ROUTE 21 ↗
- Who funds GLORIOUS GENERATION FOREIGN MISSION ↗
- Who funds PROSKUNEO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MENTORING URBAN STUDENTS & TEENS ↗
- Who funds LIFECHANGE HOUSING ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds IN MY SHOES INC ↗
- Who funds At Jacob's Well ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds STREETSIDE SHOWERS INC ↗
- Who funds Peters Canyon Elementary School Pto ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds OLD UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds MESSENGERS OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds SERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Kengena 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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