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Kuzak Family Foundation at a glance

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Kuzak 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.

$402k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$330k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MReligion$511kPhilanthropy$50k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
  • $250k+1 grant · $330k
$55,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$452k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAMASCUS CATHOLIC MISSION CAMPUS$330,000
DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$55,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT - MERCY$17,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER BASILICA: $44k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT-MERCY: $120k → 21%DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 12%OUR LADY OF REFUGE INC: $15k → 15%THE REAGAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%DAMASCUS CATHOLIC MISSION CAMPUS: $330k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTE: $35k → 19%NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER BASILICA: $42k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT - MERCY: $113k → 21%DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FDTN INC: $15k → 12%THE REAGAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%DAMASCUS CATHOLIC MISSION CAMPUS: $30k → 12%JOHN HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTE: $35k → 19%NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER BASILICA: $30k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT - MERCY: $98k → 21%DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FDTN INC: $15k → 12%DAMASCUS CATHOLIC MISSION CAMPUS: $20k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT - MERCY: $93k → 21%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT-MERCY: $90k → 21%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT-MERCY: $90k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT-MERCY: $60k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT-MERCY: $30k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT - MERCY: $17k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT - MERCY: $6k → 21%DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $55k → 21%DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $45k → 21%DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $45k → 21%DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $40k → 21%DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $33k → 21%DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $30k → 21%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

57%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $716k · revenue +20%
  • DI
    DAMASCUS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $380k · revenue +14%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $60k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $35k
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • DF
    DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $715,775 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYDETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $247,500 · OtherDETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL IN…NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER BASILICA: $116,000 · OtherNATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLO…JOHN HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTE: $35,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTEJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTE: $35,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTEDOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FDTN INC: $30,000 · OtherDOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FDTN INCDOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · Other+1 more: $15,000 · OtherDAMASCUS INC: $380,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAMASCUS INCTHE REAGAN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Education$775,775Other$496,000Youth Development$380,000Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $715,775 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDAMASCUS INC: $380,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REAGAN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 55% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
  • Who funds DAMASCUS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE REAGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF REFUGE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kuzak Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kuzak Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 11 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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