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Kowalski Family Foundation Co of Thomas at a glance

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Kowalski Family Foundation Co of Thomas

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.

$657k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$647k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MHealth$96kHuman Services$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kArts & Culture$3k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $647k
$647,450
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$647,450
THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL SHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $600 → 17%LONE TREE ARTS CENTER: $3k → 3%DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $5k → 7%CHERRY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH: $34k → 12%THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $647k → 15%DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $3k → 7%NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER: $50k → 12%THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $550k → 15%DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $3k → 7%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $25k → 12%THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $377k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $200k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION UC HEALTH: $21k → 12%THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL SHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 15%THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $6k → 12%THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL SHOLARSHIP FUND: $9k → 15%THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL SHOLARSHIP FUND: $8k → 15%THE LASALLE-PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 6 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$2.0M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+84%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $111k · revenue +76%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +13%
  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MP
    MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD CATHOLIC PARISH
    one grant, 2021 · $34k
  • CH
    CHERRY HILLS POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • LT
    LASALLE-PERU TWP HS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -36%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,774,450 · OtherTHE LASALLE - PERU TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION+5 more: $89,857 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $110,500 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $75,000 · HealthDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $600 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,864,307Education$113,000Health$75,000Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$600

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $110,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENVER STREET SCHOOL: $15,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLASALLE-PERU TWP HS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $600 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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE DENVER STREET SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LASALLE-PERU TWP HS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kowalski Family Foundation Co of Thomas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kowalski Family Foundation Co of Thomas. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 11 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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