· Private foundation
Kriz Charitable Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $238k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY | $138,061 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE | $100,000 |
| READY FOR GOOD CO | $40,000 |
| O'CONNELL CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $22,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- LHLAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2017–2025 · $283k · revenue +7%
- EBELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +151%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +282%
Funded once
- S3SHY 38 INCone grant, 2024 · $65k
- TDThe Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +79%
- LCLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue -64%
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.
The lawrence community shelter is the only emergency homeless shelter serving lawrence and douglas county in kansas. our mission is to provide a safe shelter and comprehensive services and programs in order to set people experiencing or at…
To act as a catalyst and conduit for responsible growth and reinvestment in the lawrenceville community.
Provide emergency food and financial assistance to needy families.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Lawrence meals on wheels' mission has always been to provide food service for the aged, convalescent and/or disabled residing in lawrence, kansas, regardless of race, color or creed, in order to remain independent in their own homes as…
To build stability for families and community through affordable housing.
The mission of the Lawrence Farmers Market is to provide children and adults in the Lawrence, KS area, with locally grown foods and farm products. This will be accomplished by improving access to local, healthy, affordable food through a…
Economic prosperity through leadership, advocacy and investment in Douglas County.
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Opening doors out of poverty by providing shelter, food, clothing and education, and support for the homeless and the poor, in the lawrence, massachusetts area.
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To provide quality services in a comfortable, empathetic environment to persons suffering from a mental illness or emotional disturbance and to return them to a higher quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Lawrence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elizabeth Ballard Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds READY FOR GOOD CO ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERT NASH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Douglas County Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC ↗
- Who funds OCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds Claires Community Inc ↗
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: Douglas County Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · A John and Barbara a Hauptli Charitable Foundation · United Way of Douglas County Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Debby Durham Family Foundation · ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE
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 Kriz Charitable Fund Inc 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.
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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