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Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2026
16
Organizations funded FY2025
13%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$8,471
Largest grant, FY2026
$8,471
Organizations funded a year
14 to 16
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 13% of the organizations Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving1$8k0%
FY202516$1.7M13%
FY202415$220k0%
FY202315$110k0%
FY202215$110k0%
FY202116$90k13%
FY202014$86k29%
FY201914$86kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.6MArts & Culture$190kHuman Services$167kCommunity Improvement$137kMembership Benefit$80kRecreation & Sports$76kEducation$50kFood & Nutrition$34kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oakwood Foundation Inc$46,00069%
Real Services Inc$39,00070%
Swcc Foundation Inc$31,8006n/a
Teen Parents Succeeding Inc$18,000222%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller

How much does Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller give?
Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller reported 1 grants totaling $8,471 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (66%), Arts & Culture (8%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Oakwood Foundation Inc ($46k), Real Services Inc ($39k), Swcc Foundation Inc ($32k).
Does Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller based?
Kenneth & Lela Harkless Foundation Incc/O Pat Appenzeller is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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