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Kolbe 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.

$11k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,180
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$4k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Kolbe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitPhilanthropyReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$11k12%
FY202314$6k7%
FY202218$27k0%
FY202122$45k73%
FY20201$10k100%
FY201815$50k73%
FY201714$80kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$64kHealth$34kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$22kArts & Culture$20kPublic Benefit$15kAnimals$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kolbe Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHonor Flight Austin: $15,029 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetI Live Here I Give Here: $13,890 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSamaritan Center Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Artists Project: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOwn Your Own Universe: $9,691 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetAustin Dog Alliance: $7,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAustin Pets Alive Inc: $5,075 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Loaves & Fishes Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Child Protection: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWarrior Canine Connection Inc: $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWaterorg: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Indigenous Womens Resource Center Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Comfort Crew for Military Kids: $2,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Homefront Inc: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Defenders International Inc US: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice Giving Foundation: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Disaster Relief Network: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmancipet Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacobs Heart Childrens Cancer Support Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Central Texas: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Kolbe Family Foundation

How much does Kolbe Family Foundation give?
Kolbe Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $10,737 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kolbe Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (15%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are Kolbe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Honor Flight Austin ($15k), I Live Here I Give Here ($14k), Samaritan Center Inc ($12k).
Does Kolbe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kolbe Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kolbe Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Kolbe Family Foundation based?
Kolbe Family Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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