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Michael and Alice Kuhn 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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$3.7MEducation$2.8MReligion$2.4MEmployment$958kArts & Culture$906kHuman Services$645kCommunity Improvement$567kHousing & Shelter$493kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $900k
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $3.7M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT$160,000
CLERGY AND LAITY UNITED FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE (CLUE)$150,000
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM$150,000
EVERY TEXAN$150,000
JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION (JALSA)$150,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION$130,000
JEWISH ORGANIZING INSTITUTE & NETWORK (JOIN)$130,000
BREAKTHROUGH CENTRAL TEXAS$120,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$112,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DALLAS$110,000
AVODAH$110,000
INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA$110,000
THE MULTICULURAL INSTITUTE$105,000
CENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES$100,000
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA (CTUL)$100,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC (PPL): $75k → 11%THE MULTICULURAL INSTITUTE: $105k → 10%EL PASO CIVIC EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $45k → 21%VALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $50k → 27%THINK NEW MEXICO: $18k → 12%ALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH: $35k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING (PPL): $50k → 11%THE MULTICULURAL INSTITUTE: $60k → 10%EL PASO CIVIC EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $35k → 21%THINK NEW MEXICO: $15k → 12%ALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH: $25k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING (PPL): $45k → 11%THE MULTICULURAL INSTITUE: $20k → 10%EL PASO CIVIC EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $25k → 21%THINK NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING (PPL): $45k → 11%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $53k → 14%THINK NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%THINK NEW MEXICO: $10k → 12%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $40k → 14%VALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $40k → 16%THINK New Mexico: $10k → 12%VALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $30k → 16%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%THE POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $40k → 14%VALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $25k → 16%THINK NEW MEXICO: $40k → 12%THE POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $50k → 11%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $50k → 14%THE POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%VALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $25k → 16%THE POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 77 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

77 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
28

Total granted

$13M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+56%

Still filing today

68%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +96%
  • B
    BREAKTHROUGH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $486k · revenue +199%
  • AT
    AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • CF
    COLLEGE FOR HEALTH COMMUNITY AND POLICY
    one grant, 2023 · $102k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2024 · $101k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Jolt Initiative

Jolt Initiative is a non-profit organization that increases the civic participation of Latinos in Texas to build a stronger democracy and ensure that everyone's voice is heard.

Civil Rights
3
Jolt Action Inc

We believe young Latinos will transform Texas through the power of their vote. We are harnessing the brilliance of our community and culture to build a generation of leaders that matches the urgency of our time.

Human Services
4
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
5
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
6
Austin Justice Coalition

Austin Justice Coalition educates, organizes, and empowers communities in Austin to build racial equity and dismantle systems of oppression through advocacy, policy change, and community programs.

Human Services
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Lone Star Justice Alliance

Lone star justice alliance (lsja) was established in 2017 as a non-profit legal organization to boldly address systemic failures in the justice system through advocacy and innovative evidence-based programs that improve life outcomes for…

Crime & Legal
9
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
10
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
11
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
12
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Youth Development ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/78
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,487

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 127 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
46/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $805,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISMEVERY TEXAN — $560,000 · OtherEVERY TEXANJEWISH ORGANIZING INSTITUTE & NETWORK (JOIN) — $479,200 · OtherCLERGY AND LAITY UNITED FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE (CLUE) — $385,000 · OtherTRUAH - RABBIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $349,000 · OtherBEND THE ARC — $320,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - DALLAS — $320,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $308,000 · Other+76 more — $5,642,973 · Other+76 moreBREAKTHROUGH — $486,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $299,000 · EducationWORKERS DEFENS…St Edwards University — $259,400 · EducationSt Edwards Uni…COPS METRO EDUCATION FUND — $215,000 · EducationCOPS METRO EDU…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $120,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN…Education Law Center - PA — $100,000 · EducationPASTORS FOR TEXAS CHILDREN — $100,000 · EducationTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $82,800 · EducationSEEDLING FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION — $70,000 · Education+3 more — $105,500 · Education+3 moreAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC — $420,000 · Community ImprovementAVODAH TH…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $307,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORH…LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC — $220,000 · Community ImprovementLAWYERS F…POWER INTERFAITH INC — $170,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER INT…Austin Interfaith Inc — $105,000 · Community ImprovementAustin In…VIP Education Fund — $60,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $25,000 · Community ImprovementPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $215,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT F…MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $185,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULT…SWIPE OUT HUNGER — $183,000 · Human ServicesSWIPE OUT…VALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP & EDUCATION COUNCIL — $170,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY IN…POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $170,000 · Human ServicesPOWER OF …THINK NEW MEXICO — $117,500 · Human ServicesTHINK NEW…El Paso Civic Education Organization — $105,000 · Human ServicesEl Paso C…ALBUQUERQUE INTERFAITH INC — $60,000 · Human Services+1 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $510,000 · Civil RightsACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $105,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $57,000 · Civil RightsINTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $204,000 · ReligionDallas Area Interfaith — $195,000 · ReligionFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA — $70,000 · ReligionJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC — $35,000 · ReligionFAITH COMMONS — $25,000 · ReligionFAITH IN TEXAS - PICO — $20,000 · ReligionCLOCKSHOP — $175,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER — $61,000 · Arts & CultureMINDPOP — $55,500 · Arts & CultureBALLET AUSTIN INCORPORATED — $43,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$9,169,423Education$1,912,700Community Improvement$1,307,000Human Services$1,230,500Civil Rights$672,000Religion$549,000Arts & Culture$344,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION — $510,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH — $486,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC — $420,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $308,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $307,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $299,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $277,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $277,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSt Edwards University — $259,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $244,500 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetCENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES — $220,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC — $220,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $215,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOPS METRO EDUCATION FUND — $215,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $204,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetDallas Area Interfaith — $195,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $185,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetSWIPE OUT HUNGER — $183,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCLOCKSHOP — $175,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $170,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetVALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP & EDUCATION COUNCIL — $170,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetPOWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $170,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $170,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCorporate Accountability Lab — $160,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetTEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC — $128,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $122,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHINK NEW MEXICO — $117,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetINSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA — $110,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $105,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc — $105,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEl Paso Civic Education Organization — $105,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAustin Interfaith Inc — $105,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPASTORS FOR TEXAS CHILDREN — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTexas Fair Defense Project — $95,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $82,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC — $80,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSEEDLING FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NEW PHILANTHROPISTS — $75,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetAbolish Private Prisons — $75,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAUSTIN PARTNERS IN EDUCATION — $70,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA — $70,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetAUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER — $61,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetVIP Education Fund — $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budget
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 JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA ↗
  • Who funds St Edwards University ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES ↗
  • Who funds LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds COPS METRO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Area Interfaith ↗
  • Who funds MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SWIPE OUT HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds CLOCKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP & EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds POWER INTERFAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds Corporate Accountability Lab ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…Shield-Ayres Foundati…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundAmalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationAlice Kleberg Reynold…St David's FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Proteus Fund IncNEO Philanthropy IncBetter Business Bureau
Austin Community Foundation IncTX34.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · St David's Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Better Business Bureau

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 Michael and Alice Kuhn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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