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Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund at a glance

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Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$156k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$414kCrime & Legal$100kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$50kInternational$25kHuman Services$23kAnimals$15kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$690k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$59,000
LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS$25,000
CARITAS CONNECTIONS INC$20,000
LINDBERGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$10,000
ARMY AVIATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION A$10,000
GREATER ST LOUIS COUNCIL BSA$7,500
PEDAL THE CAUSE$5,000
ANGEL FLIGHT CENTRAL INC$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB IF ALTON INC$5,000
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION$5,000
ST GERARD MAJELLA CATHOLIC CHURCH$3,000
ALS ASSOCIATION$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 (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $5k → 21%THE JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY: $3k → 4%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $5k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $3k → 11%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$489k · 7 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$489k
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LA
    LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $95k · revenue +75%
  • CC
    Caritas Connections Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • VA
    VISITATION ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • WO
    WINGS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • CC
    CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -26%
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
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
3
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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6
Mid-America Transplant Services

To save lives through excellence in organ and tissue donation.

Health
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
8
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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10
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
11
Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois

Lutheran child and family services of illinois (agency) is a nonprofit statewide social service agency whose mission is to attract, develop, mobilize, and prvoide resources to improve the well-being of children, individuals, families,…

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12
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $304,000 · OtherST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLVISITATION ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS COUNTY: $100,000 · OtherVISITATION ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS COUNTYST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · OtherST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC+11 more: $65,000 · Other+11 moreLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $95,000 · EducationLOYOLA ACADEMY …LINDBERGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationLINDBERGH SCHOO…Caritas Connections Inc: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $20,000 · HealthAngel Flight Central Inc: $5,000 · HealthWarriors Ascent: $5,000 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 · HealthWINGS OF HOPE: $25,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · InternationalHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $10,000 · AnimalsFIVE ACRES ANIMAL SHELTER: $5,000 · AnimalsPEDAL THE CAUSE: $7,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesJOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY NASHVILLE: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$499,000Education$105,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Health$40,000International$30,000Animals$15,000Human Services$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $95,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCaritas Connections Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINDBERGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Flight Central Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWarriors Ascent: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE ACRES ANIMAL SHELTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY NASHVILLE: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

St Louis Community Fo…The Bellwether Founda…St Louis Community Fo…Moneta Group Charitab…United Way of Greater…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Berges Family Foundat…Roman Catholic Founda…Youthbridge Community…United Way WorldwideCommerce Bancshares F…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bellwether Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Berges Family Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Commerce Bancshares 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 Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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