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Kirsonis Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITHUANIAN CHILDREN'S HOPE | $52,936 |
| DAUGHTERS OF LITHUANIA | $36,000 |
| LITHUANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LITHUANIAN FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| EASTERN SIERRA LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| LITHUANIAN EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL OF U | $2,000 |
| LITHUANIAN WORLD ARTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| LITHUANIAN ARCHIVES PROJECT | $2,000 |
| THALIANS | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE INYO | $2,000 |
| DISABLED SPORTS EASTERN SIERRA | $2,000 |
| MONO COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE | $2,000 |
| SAINT CASIMIR'S CHURCH | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- DODAUGHTERS OF LITHUANIA LA8× · 2017–2024 · $266k · revenue +41% · 29% of their budget
- LFLITHUANIAN FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +97%
- TTTHE THALIANS8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- NFNMDP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +30%
- CRCENTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN PERMACULTUREone grant, 2022 · $1k
- MLMALIBU LOST HILLS SHERIFFS FOUNDATIone grant, 2019 · $250
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.
To promote and preserve lithuanian culture and heritage.
Support Latvian language and culture
To support, promote and assist religious activities and projects to "renew all things in christ" through educational programs including conferences, leadership seminars, training workshops, summer camps, periodicals and other publications,…
To promote lithuanian culture and education.
To Promote Lithuanian Language Culture.The Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago was founded by Lithuanian imigrants in 1956 and presents operas in Lithuanian . It celebrated fifty years of existence in 2006 , and operates as a…
To plan, steward, interpret, promote, and sustain a system of four-season trails and public access to natural areas in the Mammoth Lakes and Eastern Sierra Nevada region in the state of California while protecting its natural resources.
The american latvian association (ala) is the main representative organization for the latvian american community. through 100 member organizations, churches, clubs and some 4,000 individual members we represent over 90,000 people of…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Operation and maintenance of museum and library of the lithuanian catholic academy
Support collection development and public programs at the Mammoth Lakes Branch Library.
Cultural & Religious Meetings
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mono Lake Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lithuanian Melodies Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 47 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 DAUGHTERS OF LITHUANIA LA ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS MAMMOTH ↗
- Who funds THE THALIANS ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SIERRA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DRAUGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Inyo ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC UNBOUND ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds BALTIC AMERICAN FREEDOM LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DAINAVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATEITIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONO ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH LAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITHUANIAN MELODIES 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: The Lorber Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kirsonis 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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