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Melvin W & Masel Kallenbach Fndn Inc at a glance

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Melvin W & Masel Kallenbach Fndn Inc

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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$75kReligion$65kCrime & Legal$20kArts & Culture$15kHealth$14kYouth Development$11kEnvironment$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$263k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EVANSVILLE$10,000
MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
BRESCIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
BORROWED HEARTS$7,500
LITTLE LAMBS$7,500
YOUTH RESOURCES$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP HARBOR VIEW: $5k → 16%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GLEN HAVEN FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 11%LITTLE LAMBS: $8k → 15%BRESCIA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%KY TORNADO RELIEF FUND: $5k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $5k → 11%VANDERBURGH CASA: $5k → 15%ESTES VALLEY LAND TRUST: $5k → 11%CASA: $5k → 15%TOTTEN HALL PRESCHOOL: $20k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $20k → 15%MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 15%REITZ MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%EVANSVILLE WARTIME MUESEUM: $20k → 15%EVANSVILLE WARTIME MUSEUM: $10k → 15%BORROWED HEARTS: $8k → 15%EVANSVILLE WARTIME MUSEUM: $5k → 15%VANDERBURGH COUNTY CASA: $10k → 15%VANDERBURGH COUNTY CASA: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ACE CARE: $4k → 15%GRANTED: $5k → 15%YOUTH RESOURCES: $5k → 15%VANDERBUGH HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 15%YOUTH RESOURCES: $1k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EVANSVILLE: $10k → 15%TRI-STATE FOOD BANK: $5k → 15%SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH: $40k → 15%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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61k · 4 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +283% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
18

Total granted

$61k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+283%
+32%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • DF
    DEACONESS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k
  • VC
    Vanderburgh County CASA Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • EI
    EWM INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
2
Catholic Education Foundation Inc

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…

Education
3
Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc

The mission of vins is to motivate individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation.

Environment
4
Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc
Food & Nutrition
5
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture
6
Upper Valley Land Trust Inc

The upper valley land trust helps people conserve land. uvlt provides conservation leadership, tools and expertise to permanently protect working farms, forested ridges, wildlife habitat, water resources, trails and scenic landscapes. see…

Environment
7
Evansville Christian School Inc

Evansville christian school exists to empower students to embrace a biblical worldview through spiritual and academic growth, servant leadership, and authentic relationships in the name of jesus christ.

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8
Andrews University

Education

Education
9
The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc

The vermont center for ecostudies advances the conservation of wildlife across the americas through research, monitoring, and citizen engagement.

Environment
10
Rensselaerville Institute

Supports foundations, governments and individual donors to invest in social programs with the same rigor as investors seeking financial returns. shows nonprofits and community organizations how to set and track targets to achieve…

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11
Valley Educational Associates Inc

Valley educational associates, inc's (vea) specialized professionals strive to improve the quality of life for people with developmental disabilities.

Human Services
12
Avery County Habitat for Humanity

Affordable home ownership

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-State Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Little Lambs of Evansville Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCHDEACONESS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherDEACONESS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOTTEN HALL PRESCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherTOTTEN HALL PRESCHOOLMEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherMEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLREITZ MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $9,667 · OtherBORROWED HEARTS: $7,500 · Other+11 more: $53,000 · Other+11 moreUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · EducationBRESCIA UNIVER…CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE INC: $5,000 · EducationCATHOLIC EDUCA…Vanderburgh County CASA Inc: $15,000 · Civil RightsEWM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterGRANTED INC: $5,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthLITTLE LAMBS OF EVANSVILLE INC: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$185,167Education$35,000Civil Rights$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$10,000Community Improvement$7,500

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 EVANSVILLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEWM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LAMBS OF EVANSVILLE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANTED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetESTES VALLEY LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-STATE FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANDERBURGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Braun Family Foundati…Koch Foundation IncBaird Foundation IncWelborn Baptist Found…Cecil a and Mabel Len…Community Foundation …West Side Nut Club IncEvansville Endowment …Centerpoint Energy Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust CoIN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · Koch Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · West Side Nut Club Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Melvin W & Masel Kallenbach Fndn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin W & Masel Kallenbach Fndn Inc. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 27 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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