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Kirsten and Emily Maki 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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
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.

Human Services$131kHealth$67kEducation$56kReligion$52kHousing & Shelter$12kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$9kEnvironment$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$548k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURE EPILEPSY$10,000
SIENA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF RACINE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
STARS & STRIPES HONOR FLI$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FOCUS ON COMMUNITY$5,000
HALO INC$3,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RED BIRD FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%SANTA CAUSE: $10k → 10%RED BIRD FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%BELEAF SURVIVORS: $3k → 10%HALO: $3k → 10%HALO INC: $3k → 10%HALO INC: $3k → 10%HALO INC: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
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MI
IN
CA
AZ
DC
HI
GA
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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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$233k · 15 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$233k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+58%

Still filing today

47%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • FO
    FOCUS ON COMMUNITY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +51%
  • HA
    HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +59%
  • ECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SC
    Santa Cause Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • LL
    LOVE LOGAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +138%

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
Racine County Opportunity Center

Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…

Human Services
2
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
3
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

4
Rosecrance Inc

Rosecrance provides help, hope and lasting recovery to children, youth, adults and families.

5
American College of Radiology Association

The purpose of the association is the promotion of educational and professional association interests including but not limited to the promotion of the interests of radiology and the interests and study of the socioeconomic aspects of the…

Community Improvement
6
Catholic Cemetery Association of Racine Inc

The management and general maintenance of a cemetery or cemeteries in or near the city of racine, wisconsin, for the use and benefit of such members of the roman catholic congregations of said city and county of racine as may acquire…

7
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
8
Rally Foundation Inc

Rally foundation, a 501(c) (3) non profit organization, empowers volunteers across the country to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer research to find better treatments with fewer long term side effects and, ultimately, cures.

Philanthropy
9
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
10
Sauk Prairie Healthcare Inc

Extraordinary healthcare from the heart - one person at a time.vision: we will set the standard for community-based healthcare that improves the health and quality of life of the people we serve.

Health
11
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
12
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eco-Justice Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Cause Inc. 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 59 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr19%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%7%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr19%40%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,504

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.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOSPITALITY CENTER — $36,000 · OtherHOSPITALITY CENTERRACINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $30,000 · OtherRACINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient — $29,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $29,000 · OtherCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFOCUS ON COMMUNITY INC — $27,000 · OtherFOCUS ON COMMUNITY INCIndividual grant recipient — $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherLOVE LOGAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherSIENA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OF RACINE INC — $10,000 · Other+22 more — $75,450 · Other+22 moreHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS …Santa Cause Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesSanta Cau…Red Bird Foundation — $6,000 · Human ServicesRed Bird …BELEAF SURVIVORS INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesBELEAF SU…Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $16,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,000 · HealthMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionThe George Washington University — $6,000 · EducationALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · EducationTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC — $950 · EducationECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC — $8,000 · EnvironmentSTARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC — $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$269,450Human Services$31,000Health$19,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$9,950Environment$8,000Public Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOCUS ON COMMUNITY INC — $27,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Cause Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC — $8,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRed Bird Foundation — $6,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe George Washington University — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRacine Arts Council Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELEAF SURVIVORS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC — $950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeKoven Center Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FOCUS ON COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy
  • Who funds HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC
  • Who funds Santa Cause Inc
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds ECO-JUSTICE CENTER INC
  • Who funds Red Bird Foundation
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds Racine Arts Council Inc
  • Who funds STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds BELEAF SURVIVORS 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.

Racine Community Foundation IncWI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Racine Community Foundation Inc · Lang Family Foundation Inc · Ascension All Saints Hospital Foundation Inc · United Way of Racine County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Kirsten and Emily Maki 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 43 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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