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Kunes Family 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k213 grants · $382k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $737k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $554k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC | $293,228 |
| HEROES OF FAITH MINISTRIES INTL | $261,000 |
| ETERNAL WORD MINISTRIES CORPORATION | $206,000 |
| COMPUTER SKILLS AND TRAINING CENTER INC | $155,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH | $128,644 |
| THE WOODSON CENTER | $100,000 |
| MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LONNIE JARVIS MINISTRIES | $89,500 |
| BLAZING TREES | $88,137 |
| CHRISTIAN LIFE CHURCH | $88,020 |
| JACK HARRIS MINISTRIES INC DBA GLOBAL MESSENGER SERVICE | $79,000 |
| GOSPEL MINISTRIES | $74,000 |
| COMMUNITY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH | $50,984 |
| I LIKE GIVING | $50,000 |
| IMPACT MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
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, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
292 repeat relationships — 145 still active in FY2024, 147 since wound down; 120 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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
- TMTIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $843k · revenue +60%
- WCWOODSON CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $407k · revenue +655%
- PWPiney Woods School2× · 2022–2023 · $238k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- LGLAKE GENEVA CAMPS & CONFERENCESone grant, 2020 · $100k
- BTBLAZING TREESone grant, 2022 · $73k
- GMGOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -23%
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 mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Service for disabled adults
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Stoughton Resettlement Assistance Program. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
297 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. 297 of the 928 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Computer Skills & Training Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DELAVAN ARAM PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAZING TREES ↗
- Who funds FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIME IS NOW TO HELP INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC 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: John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Walworth County · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Keefe Foundation Inc · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Michelmann Foundation
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 Kunes Family 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.
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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