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Kouns Family Foundation at a glance

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Kouns 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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$41kHuman Services$40kEducation$33kInternational$22kHealth$16kYouth Development$7kHousing & Shelter$5kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD NEWS CHURCH$18,200
STEVEN A COHEN MILITARY FAMILY CLINIC$10,230
K9 FOR VETERANS$5,000
HORSE PLAY THERAPY CENTER$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$2,880
JACKSONVILLE ICEMEN WARRIORS$1,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHANGING LIVES INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%CHANGING LIVES INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%HORSE PLAY THERAPY CENTER: $11k → 6%HORSE PLAY THERAPY CENTER: $5k → 6%HORSE PLAY THERAPY CENTER: $5k → 6%HORSE PLAY THERAPY CENTER: $4k → 6%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

CA
KY
VA
NC
AL
GA
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 7 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +334% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$114k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+334%
0%

Still filing today

43%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GN
    GOOD NEWS CHURCH INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k
  • HT
    HORSEPLAY THERAPY CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • VC
    Veritas Classical Private School Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +334%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHNS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CHRIST SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -8%
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
Christian Lingua Services
Religion
2
Found By Faith Inc
Religion
3
Godspeaks Inc
Philanthropy
4
Gods Love Inc
—
5
Hands for Christ International Inc
Religion
6
Follow Him Media Inc
Religion
7
Teaching in the Son Inc
—
8
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

—
9
Helping Hands International
—
10
Speaklife Ministries Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Global Faith Project Inc
Philanthropy
12
Miracles From Heaven
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smilefaith Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD NEWS CHURCH INC: $35,700 · OtherGOOD NEWS CHURCH INCSTEVEN A COHEN MILITARY FAMILY CLINIC: $12,230 · OtherSTEVEN A COHEN MILITARY FAMILY CLINICSAINT JOHNS ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherSAINT JOHNS ACADEMYK9 FOR VETERANS: $7,700 · OtherK9 FOR VETERANSIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherYOUTH WITH A MISSION: $4,500 · OtherESTEEM WOMEN'S CENTER: $4,200 · OtherMUSTARD SEED HOUSE: $3,800 · Other+2 more: $4,400 · OtherHORSEPLAY THERAPY CENTER INC: $24,500 · Human ServicesHORSEPLAY THERAPY CENTER…CHANGING LIVES INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHANGING LIVES INTERNATI…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs …Veritas Classical Private School Inc: $18,000 · EducationVeritas Classi…THE CHRIST SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHRIST SCH…SMILEFAITH INC: $5,000 · HealthFirst Coast Womens Services Inc: $3,800 · HealthCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $7,130 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · ReligionNATIONS OF COACHES INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLADY PANTHERS FAST PITCH INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$98,030Human Services$39,500Education$23,000Health$8,800Philanthropy$7,130Religion$5,000Youth Development$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,000

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 budgetHORSEPLAY THERAPY CENTER INC: $24,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetVeritas Classical Private School Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $7,130 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRIST SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Coast Womens Services Inc: $3,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONS OF COACHES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLADY PANTHERS FAST PITCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Kouns Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kouns Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Horseplay Therapy Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
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 23 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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