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Kolkhorst Family 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.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$150kRecreation & Sports$51kReligion$49kAnimals$15kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kPublic Benefit$5kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$709k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
BRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM$12,500
FRIEDENS CHURCH$5,000
BRENHAM CHAMPION FELLOWSHIP$2,500
FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC$2,000
HOPE GATHERING INC$1,000
ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC: $3k → 14%Faith Mission & Help Center Inc: $2k → 14%FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC: $2k → 14%FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC: $2k → 14%FAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC: $2k → 14%Faith Mission & Help Center Inc: $2k → 14%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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$247k · 15 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$247k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-17%

Still filing today

73%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • WO
    WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue ×15
  • FO
    Friends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +105%
  • WA
    WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • CO
    CITY OF BRENHAM COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • WV
    Washington Volunteer Fire Dept
    one grant, 2018 · $5k

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
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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2
The Robert Burns Society of West Texas
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Wilson County Historical Society

The wilson county historical society was formed by local historians to research and preserve the rich past of wilson county, texas.

Arts & Culture
4
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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5
Fannin Agricultural Association Inc

The Fannin Agricultural Association Inc's purpose is to promote and invest in the future of agriculture in Fannin County.

Community Improvement
6
Festival of Texas Fiddling

The Festival of Texas Fiddling is dedicated to the preservation, presentation, and performance, and education about of all styles of fiddling and fiddle-associated music played historically and currently in the State of Texas.

Arts & Culture
7
Festival On the Brazos

Festival on the brazos is a non-profit volunteer organization that promotes the unique spirit of waco by sharing waco's history, providing educational scholarships, and creating community-minded connections.

Arts & Culture
8
Washington County Historical Society

Discover, preserve, and celebrate the history of washington county, arkansas, and to share that heritage with others.

Arts & Culture
9
Llano County Historical Society Inc

historic preservation and education

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10
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Texas Association of Museums

The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
12
Friends of Winedale

The organizations strives to raise supplementary funds to assist the doplh briscoe center for american history at the university of texas at austin in the preservation efforts of the winedale historic complex located near round top texas.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Fair Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Society of Washington County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 35 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL F…WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOC — $8,229 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCBRENHAMS CHAMPION FELLOWSHIP — $15,000 · OtherBRENHAMS CHAMPION FELLOWSHIPBRENHAM HERITAGE SOCIETY — $11,500 · OtherBRENHAM HERITAGE SOCIETYFriedens Church of Washington — $10,000 · OtherFriedens Church of WashingtonCITY OF BRENHAM COMMUNITY — $5,000 · OtherCITY OF BRENHAM COMMUNITYFRIEDENS CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherFRIEDENS CHURCHWashington Volunteer Fire Dept — $5,000 · OtherWashington Volunteer Fire DeptHERITAGE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $4,500 · OtherBLINN COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS ASSOC — $3,500 · OtherTHE BARNHILL CENTER — $3,500 · OtherBRENHAM ISD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Other+13 more — $19,050 · Other+13 moreFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Texas Historic…BRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM+2 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureWILDLIFE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $15,000 · AnimalsFAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE GATHERING INC — $2,500 · Community Improvement
Recreation & Sports$98,229Other$85,050Arts & Culture$77,500Animals$15,000Human Services$12,000Youth Development$7,000Community Improvement$2,500

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 budgetWASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM — $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWILDLIFE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH MISSION & HELP CENTER INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOC — $8,229 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $4,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBLINN COLLEGE ALUMNI & FRIENDS ASSOC — $3,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHOPE GATHERING INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $2,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS LEADERSHIP SUMMIT — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRENHAM CHILDRENS CHORUS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBRENHAM MAIFEST ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS COTTON GIN AND MUSEUM — $450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Volunteer Fire Department — $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

BetsWest FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
BetsWest FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BetsWest Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Kolkhorst 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 35 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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