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Kroll 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$4k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$50kHealth$48kFood & Nutrition$29kCrime & Legal$11kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$10kAnimals$8kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$327k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FeedMore WNY Foundation$4,000
Hamburg Alumni Foundation$3,500
Tee It Up for the Troops$3,000
Oishei Children's Hospital$2,017
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$2,000
Roswell Park Alliance Fund$2,000
Miami University Foundation$1,500
Niagara University$1,500
Hamburg Oktoberfest$1,500
American Cancer Society$1,000
American Red Cross$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation$1,000
University of Buffalo School of Management$1,000
Marine Toys for Tots$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Lazarus House: $1k → 8%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network: $1k → 14%Churches in Action: $1k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $5k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $4k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $4k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $4k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $2k → 13%FeedMore WNY Foundation: $2k → 13%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 22 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
28

Total granted

$137k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+47%

Still filing today

64%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • HA
    HAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +127%
  • NIAGARA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +36%
  • TI
    TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +77%
  • YH
    Young Hearts for Life Advocate Health Care Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • AC
    ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +75%
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
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hamburg Oktoberfest. 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

33 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. 33 of the 54 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Roswell Park Alliance Fund: $10,500 · OtherRoswell Park Alliance FundMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $9,500 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITYOishei Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation: $7,500 · OtherOishei Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundatio…Individual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity of Buffalo School of Management: $7,000 · OtherUniversity of Buffalo School of ManagementLurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $6,000 · OtherLurie Children's Hospital of Chicago911 Memorial & Museum: $3,000 · OtherHamburg Oktoberfest: $5,500 · OtherHamburg Oktoberfest+20 more: $18,317 · Other+20 moreHAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $14,550 · EducationHAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATIO…NIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · EducationNIAGARA UNIVERSITYTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $7,100 · EducationTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,700 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO…Miami University Foundation: $2,500 · EducationMiami University Foundat…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesFEEDMORE WNY FOU…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…Churches in Action Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,000 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,000 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthMASSAGE THERAPY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,200 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyThe LAM Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $6,000 · Food & NutritionFeedHamburg: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$74,317Education$38,850Human Services$25,500Health$11,000Crime & Legal$10,000Philanthropy$9,200Food & Nutrition$8,000

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 budgetFEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAMBURG ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $14,550 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $7,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHamburg Oktoberfest: $5,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $4,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMiami University Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSAGE THERAPY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EDEN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe LAM Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget100 CLUB OF BUFFALO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion: $100 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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationCommunity Foundation …McKesson Foundation I…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationThe Chicago Community…Enterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
AbbVie FoundationIL15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Kroll Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kroll Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 54 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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