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Koranda Family Foundation at a glance

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Koranda 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.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$180kAnimals$66kYouth Development$46kHousing & Shelter$37kEducation$30kPhilanthropy$26kFood & Nutrition$24kHuman Services$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$825k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLNESS HOUSE$110,000
NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR VETERANS$25,000
WILDCAT EXCELLANCE FUND$25,000
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$20,000
MARK-9$20,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$20,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER CHICAGO$5,000
PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT$5,000
ROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$4,575
MIDWEST COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES$1,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST$500
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 (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY: $500 → 7%OPERATION DEPLOYED: $2k → 7%OPERATION DEPLOYED: $1k → 7%OPERATION DEPLOYED: $1k → 7%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $500 → 12%OPERATION DEPLOYED: $1k → 7%OPERATION DEPLOYED: $600 → 7%URBAN INITIATIVE: $500 → 14%LOAVES AND FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$436k · 34 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

$436k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+61%

Still filing today

71%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • WH
    Wellness House
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • M
    Mark-9
    5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +7%
  • RK
    ROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • V
    VFW
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • HH
    HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +178%
  • WS
    WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +173%
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
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
3
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
4
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
5
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
6
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
7
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
8
Wisconsin Humane Society

The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.

Animals
9
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc

To protect and enhance the lives of companion animals by promoting healthy relationships between pets and people. hsbv is an open admission, socially conscious shelter. hsbv provides safety net services, comprehensive adoption matching for…

Animals
10
Humane Society of South Mississippi

The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.

Animals
11
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals
12
Humane Society of Manatee County

The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rob Koranda Scholarship Foundation. 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

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wellness House: $149,500 · HealthWellness HousePARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $13,000 · HealthPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INCNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATIONSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 · Health+5 more: $8,250 · HealthWILDCAT EXCELLANCE FUND: $30,000 · OtherWILDCAT EXCELLANCE FUNDNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUN…THE SALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYNORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITY WILDCAT EXCELLENCE FUND: $7,500 · OtherNORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITY W…BUTTERFIELD SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherOPERATION DEPLOYED INC: $5,600 · OtherTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $5,000 · Other+22 more: $22,200 · Other+22 moreREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 · AnimalsREID PARK ZOOLO…Mark-9: $26,500 · AnimalsMark-9HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · AnimalsHINSDALE HUMANE…+5 more: $4,000 · Animals+5 moreNAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS: $36,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $200 · Housing & ShelterROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $20,525 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $22,000 · Food & NutritionGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $15,000 · Youth Development
Health$189,750Other$110,300Animals$65,000Housing & Shelter$36,700Philanthropy$27,025Food & Nutrition$22,000Youth Development$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWellness House: $149,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS: $36,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetREID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMark-9: $26,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $20,525 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION DEPLOYED INC: $5,600 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $4,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSYNAPSE HOUSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder High School Panther Club: $1,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Mark-9 ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ROB KORANDA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION DEPLOYED INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
  • Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SYNAPSE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Boulder High School Panther Club ↗
  • Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HINSDALE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗

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.

AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Chicago Community…Cme Group Community F…The Dupage Community …John D and Catherine …Neil & Ginny Gerald F…Vyuha IncCommunity Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
AbbVie FoundationIL16.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation · Vyuha Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Koranda Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Koranda Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Preeclampsia Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 54 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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