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Kohnken Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k13 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $146k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE WICK THEATER | $20,000 |
| PLACEOF HOPE | $20,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF E ALABAMA | $16,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| BOCA HELPING HANDS | $15,000 |
| CAMPERTOWN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| A CHILDS HAVEN | $10,000 |
| MORIKAMI MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FORT GREENE PARK CONSERVATORY | $10,000 |
| ARUNDAL RIVERS FEDERATION | $7,500 |
| LEE COUNTY LITERACY COALITION | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| THE LIGHT HOUSE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF QUIET WATER PARK | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those 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 +17% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- POPLACE OF HOPE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +73%
- ARARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +23%
- BHBOCA HELPING HANDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $9k
- TRTEAM RUBICON INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -7%
- HBHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
To combat food insecurity today and tomorrow by growing food and farmers.
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…
Community gardening, land conservation and environmental education are the primary activities. the community gardening program assists in development and maintenance of gardens with materials and neighborhood outreach. the land program…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
Together with our partners, we provide healthy solutions to end hunger in our community.
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds AVERETT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REEDY RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Quiet Waters Park Inc ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds THE NOURISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARUNDEL LODGE INC ↗
- Who funds FEED & SEED CO ↗
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: Hayne Hipp Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Kohnken Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Arundel Rivers Federation Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% 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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