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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$50,000
ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL$11,000
BURNSVILLE POLICE FIRE FOUNDATION$7,000
UNITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL$5,000
SHAKOPEE PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSN$5,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
ELIJAH INSTITUTE$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5k → 11%SHEPHARD OF THE LAKE - LUTHERAN CHURCH: $8k → 5%ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $11k → 5%BURNSVILLE POLICE FIRE FOUNDATION: $7k → 6%INVISIBLE WOUNDS PROJECT: $15k → 7%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%MN POCKET PET RESCUE: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MN DULUTHLSBE: $5k → 15%ANGEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION: $15k → 15%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20k → 19%SAMARITANS PURSE: $11k → 21%BUNKER HILL CHARITIES: $12k → 6%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 7%SHAKOPEE PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSN: $5k → 5%ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $8k → 5%UNITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $5k → 6%INVISIBLE WOUNDS PROJECT: $10k → 7%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL: $34k → 5%ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $6k → 5%ELIJAH INSTITUTE: $5k → 6%UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $70k → 11%ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $10k → 5%UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $64k → 11%PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSOCIATION: $6k → 5%UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $61k → 11%PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%BETHANY ACADEMY: $52k → 11%PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $39k → 11%SPLWSA: $5k → 5%NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB: $5k → 11%SHAKOPEE PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSN: $5k → 5%NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $10k → 11%PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%TWIN CITIES RISE: $10k → 11%ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 5%TWIN CITIES RISE: $10k → 11%NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE (NAZ): $10k → 11%BRAIV FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%REVE ACADEMY: $10k → 11%REVE ACADEMY: $10k → 11%JDRF INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 11%JDRF INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 11%JEREMIAH PROGRAM: $12k → 11%JEREMIAH PROGRAM: $10k → 11%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

ID
MN
IL
NY
VA
MD
NC
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$669k · 12 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$669k
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+144%

Still filing today

75%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEducationReligionEmploymentOther
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

  • UC
    UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $286k · revenue +128%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +42%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2017–2022 · $41k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $34k
  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +674%
  • BH
    BUNKER HILL CHARITIESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +128%
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
None Left Behind
Crime & Legal
2
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
3
The Waymaker
Religion
4
Angels Among Us
Philanthropy
5
Miracles From Heaven
International
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
Angels in Africa
International
8
Watch and Pray Ministries International Inc
International
9
The Pathway International
Philanthropy
10
The Joseph Project
—
11
Thenextpurpose
Philanthropy
12
Iamangel Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jeremiah Program; the most unlike its peers is United Christian Academy. 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

16 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. 16 of the 30 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $286,415 · EducationUNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMYBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $169,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DInvisible Wounds Project Inc: $24,500 · HealthInvisible Wounds Project IncAmerican Diabetes Association: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association+1 more: $5,000 · HealthST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL: $34,400 · OtherST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH & S…ST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $24,500 · OtherST MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOLREVE ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherREVE ACADEMYST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCHBUNKER HILL CHARITIES: $12,360 · OtherBUNKER HILL CHARITIESNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE (NAZ): $10,000 · OtherSHAKOPEE PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSN: $10,000 · OtherCFVI: $10,000 · OtherMY BROTHER'S WORKSHOP: $10,000 · OtherSHEPHERD OF THE LAKE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $14,500 · OtherGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION IN…NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $37,455 · Other+8 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $41,200 · ReligionJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $22,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSOCIATION: $21,111 · Recreation & SportsTwin Cities Rise: $20,000 · Employment
Education$286,415Health$214,000Other$215,715Religion$41,200Housing & Shelter$27,000Recreation & Sports$21,111Employment$20,000

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 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
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 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Invisible Wounds Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds PRIOR LAKE WATER SKI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • Who funds REVE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUNKER HILL CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds Elijah Institute ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC ↗

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 Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kotula Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kotula 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 →median 0%
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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