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Kolkhorst Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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%
-6%

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
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.

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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Fair Assoc; 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 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. 19 of the 35 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 COMMUNITYWashington Volunteer Fire Dept: $5,000 · OtherWashington Volunteer Fire DeptFRIEDENS CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherFRIEDENS CHURCHHERITAGE 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 DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kolkhorst Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kolkhorst Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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