· Private foundation
Mark and Linda Kissel 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of MARK AND LINDA KISSEL FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREELEY-WELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $32,557 |
| PIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $32,557 |
| BLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,967 |
| PUPPIES BEHIND BARS | $20,000 |
| WARREN VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER | $5,000 |
| PILOTS TO THE RESCUE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PPPIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY9× · 2017–2025 · $313k · revenue +160%
- PBPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +29%
- BSBLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity st. vrain valley…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. topeka habitat for humanity adheres to a…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity sandusky county…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. hfhc builds the capacity of habitat for humanity affiliates in colorado by increasing access to resources,…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of the world where everyone has a decent place to live. palouse habitat for humanity adheres to a…
To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity buckeye ridge adheres…
Seeking to put gods love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Habitat for humanity greater san francisco builds and sustains affordable homeownership opportunities for families in marin, san francisco and san mateo counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loveland Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speak Rescue and Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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
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 PIKES PEAK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TAYA AND CHRIS KYLE FOUNDATION SERVICE FAMILY STRONG ↗
- Who funds GREELEY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Speak Rescue and Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ESKIMO RESCUE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Habitat for Humanity of Colorado Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans-Group · Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mark and Linda Kissel 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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