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Kriz Charitable Fund Inc at a glance

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Kriz Charitable Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$492kAnimals$348kHousing & Shelter$310kHuman Services$292kHealth$119kFood & Nutrition$66kEnvironment$65kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $238k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$958k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY$138,061
FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE$100,000
READY FOR GOOD CO$40,000
O'CONNELL CHILDREN'S SHELTER$22,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $100k → 15%READY FOR GOOD CO: $40k → 15%READY FOR GOOD CO: $33k → 15%READY FOR GOOD CO: $32k → 15%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $30k → 15%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $24k → 15%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $20k → 15%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $17k → 15%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $16k → 15%INDEPENDANCE INC: $25k → 15%INDEPENDANCE INC: $11k → 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 9 repeat orgs$445k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$1.4M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-4%

Still filing today

78%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • LH
    LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $283k · revenue +7%
  • EB
    ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +151%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • S3
    SHY 38 INC
    one grant, 2024 · $65k
  • TD
    The Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +79%
  • LC
    LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue -64%
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
Lawrence Community Shelter Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Lawrenceville Corporation

To act as a catalyst and conduit for responsible growth and reinvestment in the lawrenceville community.

Community Improvement
3
Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry Inc

Provide emergency food and financial assistance to needy families.

Human Services
4
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
5
Lawrence Meals On Wheels Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Tenants to Homeowners Inc

To build stability for families and community through affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter
7
Lawrence Farmers Market

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…

Religion
8
Economic Development Corporation of Lawrence and Douglas County

Economic prosperity through leadership, advocacy and investment in Douglas County.

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9
Lawrence County Humane Society

None

Animals
10
Lazarus House Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
People in Need - Lawrence County

Help nbsp;people nbsp;face nbsp;challlenges nbsp;one nbsp;step nbsp;at nbsp;a nbsp;time nbsp;create nbsp;supportive nbsp;structures nbsp;to nbsp;help nbsp;individuals nbsp;and nbsp;families nbsp;make nbsp;positve nbsp;changes nbsp;and…

Human Services
12
Douglas County Mental Health & Family Counseling Association Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Lawrence Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $261,542 · OtherELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INCCAMP BROMELSICK FOUNDATION INC: $159,210 · OtherCAMP BROMELSICK FOUNDATION INCSHY 38 INC: $65,000 · OtherSHY 38 INCFRIENDS OF HIDDEN VALLEY INC: $64,840 · OtherFRIENDS OF HIDDEN VALLEY INCKANSAS SUICIDE PREVENTION HEADQUARTERS INC: $33,493 · OtherKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $30,186 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $28,839 · OtherTHE BERT NASH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $30,000 · Other+7 more: $99,546 · Other+7 moreFAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $206,966 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF LAW…READY FOR GOOD CO: $104,356 · Human ServicesREADY FOR GOOD COINDEPENDENCE INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENCE INCLAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY: $283,421 · AnimalsLAWRENCE HUMANE S…VAN GO INC: $178,157 · EducationVAN GO INCThe Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Dwayne Pea…LAWRENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $77,744 · Housing & ShelterDouglas County Housing Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterOCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $40,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$772,656Human Services$347,322Animals$283,421Education$228,157Housing & Shelter$102,744Youth Development$42,500Food & Nutrition$40,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY: $283,421 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $261,542 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $206,966 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetVAN GO INC: $178,157 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetREADY FOR GOOD CO: $104,356 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetLAWRENCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $77,744 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetThe Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $40,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $30,186 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BERT NASH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDouglas County Housing Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetJUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOCONNELL CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTH CARE ACCESS INC: $19,287 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC: $14,139 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAWRENCE CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $12,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetClaires Community Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Douglas County Commun…Midcontinent Foundati…Ethel & Raymond F Ric…Topeka Community Foun…Kansas Health Foundat…A John and Barbara a …United Way of Douglas…Greater Kansas City C…Commerce Bancshares F…Sunflower Foundation …Debby Durham Family F…ASSISTS FOUNDATION co…
Douglas County Community FoundationKS47.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kriz Charitable Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kriz Charitable Fund Inc. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kriz Charitable Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Kriz Charitable Fund Inc 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 26 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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