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Kenneth M Axtell Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Recreation & Sports$78kReligion$36kArts & Culture$32kHuman Services$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$1kPublic Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$14,064
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC$60,000
DEPOSIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,496
Individual grant recipient$15,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DEPOSIT$14,064
MAPLE LANE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH$12,992
THE DEPOSIT FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$10,000
THE DEPOSIT FOUNDATION$9,000
DEPOSIT COMMUNITY THEATRE &$5,103
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 (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%WILSON CHILDREN'S CENTER: $2k → 20%WILSON CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 20%WILSON CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 20%WILSON CHILDREN'S CENTER: $845 → 20%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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$145k · 9 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$145k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+135%

Still filing today

44%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • DC
    DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC
    2× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue -21%
  • ML
    MAPLE LANE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
    3× · 2022–2025 · $18k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DEPOSIT
    5× · 2019–2025 · $17k

Funded once

  • DC
    DEPOSITS CLOSET INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +5%
  • DR
    DEPOSIT ROTARY CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • DL
    DEPOSIT LUMBERJACK FESTIVALgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $572 · revenue +135%

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
Deposit Community Historical Society

The historical society was established to preserve and share the unique history of deposit, ny. it serves to motivate and inspire all of us to continue the innovative and creative traditions of our predecessors.

2
Community Foundation of Central Illinois Depositor
3
Delhi Community Fund

To aid and assist impoverished citizens of the Town and Village of Delhi, NY; to encourage and engender community action that emphasizes self-reliance and responsibility in civic, recreational and cultural projects; to support charitable…

4
Deposit Educational Endowment Program Inc

Provide scholarships to graduating students of deposit central school

Education
5
Deposit Community Theatre & Performing Arts Center

Entertainment and cultural enrichment

6
Diaper Bank of Orange Ulster and Sullivan Inc
Human Services
7
Depew Community Action Team Inc

We provide a setting that inspires community, empowerment, and cultural engagement for our residents.

Community Improvement
8
Love Deposit Inc

Charitable and educational purposes

Education
9
Hopewell Depot Museum

Preservation of the railroad history of hopewell junction and dutchess county

Arts & Culture
10
Long Island Disc Golf

To promote and grow the sport of disc golf on Long Island.

Recreation & Sports
11
Delta Islanders Baseball Club
12
The Depot Foundation

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deposit Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twin Tiers Honor Flight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAPLE LANE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH — $18,392 · OtherMAPLE LANE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCHFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DEPOSIT — $17,394 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DEPOSITDEPOSIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $17,341 · OtherDEPOSIT HISTORICAL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEPOSIT COMMUNITY THEATRE & — $11,724 · OtherDEPOSIT COMMUNITY THEATRE &THE DEPOSIT FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $10,000 · OtherTHE DEPOSIT FIRE DEPARTMENT INC+2 more — $3,358 · OtherDEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC — $61,341 · Community ImprovementDEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INCDEPOSIT FOUNDATION INC — $9,900 · Housing & ShelterDEPOSITS CLOSET INC — $5,962 · Recreation & SportsDEPOSIT MIDGET LEAGUE INC — $1,758 · Recreation & SportsTHE DEPOSIT COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,945 · Human ServicesDEPOSIT LUMBERJACK FESTIVAL — $572 · Arts & CultureTWIN TIERS HONOR FLIGHT INC — $500 · Public BenefitDEPOSIT FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $500 · Education
Other$93,209Community Improvement$61,341Housing & Shelter$9,900Recreation & Sports$7,720Human Services$4,945Arts & Culture$572Public Benefit$500Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC — $61,341 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDEPOSIT FOUNDATION INC — $9,900 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDEPOSITS CLOSET INC — $5,962 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE DEPOSIT COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,945 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDEPOSIT MIDGET LEAGUE INC — $1,758 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTWIN TIERS HONOR FLIGHT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDEPOSIT FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 DEPOSIT COMMUNITY PARK INC
  • Who funds DEPOSIT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DEPOSITS CLOSET INC
  • Who funds THE DEPOSIT COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds DEPOSIT MIDGET LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds DEPOSIT LUMBERJACK FESTIVAL
  • Who funds TWIN TIERS HONOR FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds DEPOSIT FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

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.

The Busfield FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Busfield Foundation · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Kenneth M Axtell Jr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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