· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE WOODSON CENTER | $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 |
| DELAVAN ARAM PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| IMPACT MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
297 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. 297 of the 928 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kunes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kunes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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