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Kristie Lee Tautenhahn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN WORLD REFLIEF | $6,000 |
| MAGNIFICAT HOUSES INC | $5,000 |
| K9 WARRIORS | $4,000 |
| BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,500 |
| GALLIEN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WOMENS HOME | $3,000 |
| SAFE SPACE | $3,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $3,000 |
| CASA OF THE COASTAL BEND | $2,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH | $2,000 |
| SPECIAL HEARTS IN THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PAWS4PEOPLE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BARARBA BUSH LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| SINTON PROBLEM SOLVERS ASSN | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TWTHE WOMEN'S HOME7× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +94%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C7× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +81%
- VFVoices for Children Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- TLTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +34%
- LDLUTHERAN DISASTER RESPONSEone grant, 2023 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Habitat for humanity of central iowa, inc. works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with god's people in need by building houses, so that there are decent houses in decent…
To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses, so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which…
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Habitat for humanity of greater miami (hfhgm) is a christian ministry whose purpose is to build homes and communities in partnership with low-income families within greater miami.
The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catherine Mcauley Center and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES C ↗
- Who funds Voices for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Magnificat Houses Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL HEARTS IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Avondale House Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Main Street Theater Houston ↗
- Who funds PAWS4PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kristie Lee Tautenhahn Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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