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Kotula 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.

$88k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$5.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Kotula Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving7$88k43%
FY20233$61k33%
FY20226$127k17%
FY20219$146k67%
FY20209$126k44%
FY20197$119k43%
FY201712$159kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$331kHealth$214kReligion$57kInternational$56kEmployment$40kRecreation & Sports$31kHuman Services$27kPhilanthropy$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
NY
VA
MD
NC
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Christian Academy$286,41553%
Breakthrough T1d$169,50050%
Samaritan's Purse$41,20030%
Invisible Wounds Project Inc$24,50026%
Jeremiah Program$22,00020%
Prior Lake Water Ski Association$21,11144%
Twin Cities Rise$20,00020%
Reve Academy$20,00023%
American Diabetes Association$15,00030%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$14,50010%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Kotula Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Christian Academy$286,41553%
Breakthrough T1d$169,50050%
Samaritan's Purse$41,20030%
Invisible Wounds Project Inc$24,50026%
Jeremiah Program$22,00020%
Prior Lake Water Ski Association$21,11144%
Twin Cities Rise$20,00020%
Reve Academy$20,00023%
American Diabetes Association$15,00030%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$14,50010%
Bunker Hill Charities$12,36012%
Northside Achievement Zone$10,00010%
Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church$7,5001n/a
Elijah Institute$5,0001n/a
Angel Foundation$5,00011%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$5,00010%
Northside Boxing Club Inc$5,00010%
Braiv Foundation$4,0001n/a
Mn Pocket Pet Rescue$1,4551n/a

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Christian Academy: $286,415 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $169,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $41,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInvisible Wounds Project Inc: $24,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetJeremiah Program: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrior Lake Water Ski Association: $21,111 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetReve Academy: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Empowerment Mission Inc: $14,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBunker Hill Charities: $12,360 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNorthside Achievement Zone: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthside Boxing Club Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 15.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Kotula Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kotula Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kotula Family Foundation

How much does Kotula Family Foundation give?
Kotula Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $88,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kotula Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (26%), Religion (7%).
Who are Kotula Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Christian Academy ($286k), Breakthrough T1d ($170k), Samaritan's Purse ($41k).
Does Kotula Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kotula 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 Kotula Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Kotula Family Foundation based?
Kotula Family Foundation is based in WI.

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 30 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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