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Korones Family Foundation at a glance

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Korones 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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$197kEducation$98kCrime & Legal$85kHealth$77kCivil Rights$40kInternational$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
$5,165
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER$15,000
ASLAN PROJECT$15,000
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM$15,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$15,000
TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION$10,325
MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE$10,000
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$5,165
NPR$5,000
MY CUP OF TEA$5,000
HEAL PALESTINE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$3,133
SUCCEED2GETHER$2,647
MAKE THE ROAD NJ$2,581
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUCCEED 2GETHER (MONTCLAIR LITERACY FESTIVAL): $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE: $10k → 17%SUCCEED 2GETHER (MONTCLAIR LITERACY FESTIVAL): $5k → 16%SUCCEED 2GETHER (MONTCLAIR LITERACY FESTIVAL): $5k → 16%SUCCEED2GETHER: $3k → 16%SUCCEED 2GETHER (MONTCLAIR LITERACY FESTIVAL): $3k → 16%MY CUP OF TEA: $5k → 17%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

NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$493k · 13 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$493k
$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+3%

Still filing today

85%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LC
    Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $96k · revenue +215%
  • MS
    MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +20%
  • NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • RR
    ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -35%
  • MF
    MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -43%
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
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
4
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
9
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
10
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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11
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
12
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Rochester Regional Health. 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

26 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. 26 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $95,740 · Arts & CultureLorraine Civil Rights Museum Fo…MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $42,000 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INCThe Laundromat Project Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Laundromat Project IncJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $6,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES: $80,000 · OtherFACING HISTORY AND OURSELVESTHE ASLAN PROJECT INC: $55,000 · OtherTHE ASLAN PROJECT INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES ROCHESTER: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherVINEYARD FARMS INC: $10,000 · OtherROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH: $20,000 · OtherROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTHMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $10,000 · OtherCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $10,500 · Other+5 more: $18,081 · Other+5 moreTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $75,000 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE JUSTIC…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY…Just City Inc: $10,000 · Crime & LegalJust City IncHIAS INC: $30,000 · InternationalHIAS INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $18,383 · InternationalWORLD CENT…PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,165 · InternationalPALESTINE …HEAL PALESTINE INC: $5,000 · InternationalHEAL PALES…SUCCEED2GETHER INC: $20,565 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMy Cup of Tea Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $1,500 · EnvironmentIFWHENHOW: $15,050 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $10,325 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$179,240Other$223,581Crime & Legal$95,000International$58,548Human Services$35,565Environment$26,500Civil Rights$25,375

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 budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $95,740 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASLAN PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHIAS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCEED2GETHER INC: $20,565 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMPHIS EQUITY THROUGH ARTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $18,383 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $15,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust City Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $3,000 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.

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.

Christian Community F…Community Foundation …The Urban Child Insti…The Assisi Foundation…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Urban Child Institute · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Korones Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Korones Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 33 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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