· Private foundation
Kjn Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Kjn Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Greater Horizons, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Kjn Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $42k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k27 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Vincent de Paul Catholic Church | $16,800 |
| Cross Catholic Outreach | $6,107 |
| Discerning Hearts | $3,000 |
| Thomas More Society | $2,160 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Archdiocese of Omaha | $1,500 |
| KVSS | $1,200 |
| John Paul II Newman Center | $1,000 |
| Sienna Francis House | $750 |
| St Leo Catholic Church | $750 |
| EPS | $650 |
| Focus | $600 |
| Live Action | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC2× · 2020–2021 · $16k
- DHDISCERNING HEARTS CO DOUGLAS J LACEY CPA2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue -18%
- TMTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue -29%
Funded once
- SVSt Vincent Catholic Churchone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SVSt Vincent de Paul Catholic Churchone grant, 2020 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Dissemination of pro-life information
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kjn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kjn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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