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Kinney Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $466k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $50,627 |
| ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY | $33,000 |
| NEIGHBOORHOOD HOUSE | $30,490 |
| TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $28,368 |
| CAMP ODAYIN | $28,000 |
| NPH-USA | $27,000 |
| BRIDGING | $25,000 |
| MULTICULTURAL SCHOOL FOR EMPOWERMEN | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,600 |
| MAHTOMEDI AREA EDUCATIONAL FDTN | $20,200 |
| HOME FOR LIFE | $20,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of your 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 +22% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- COCAMP ODAYIN5× · 2021–2025 · $140k · revenue +89%
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +33%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA5× · 2021–2025 · $127k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- ACASCENSION CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
Mission description the carter center is guided by the principles of our founders, jimmy and rosalynn carter. founded, in partnership with emory university, on a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jordan Pride Booster Club. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 72 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 ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAMP ODAYIN ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bridging Inc ↗
- Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY RIDERS ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SANCTUARY OF THE ST CROIX VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds AT HOME GROUP ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUMINARIAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fastbreak Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 Kinney 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% 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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