How much did Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $20k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$612k

Total assets

Largest grants

Joshua's Place$10,000
Go Ministries$3,000
Sleep In Heavenly Peace$2,800
Proem Ministries$2,500
Butler County Warbirds$2,500
Lipscomb Missions$2,350
Our Rescue Mission$2,000
Lovesome Stables$1,500
Shower the People$1,000
Christ's Church of Mason$1,000
The Contributor$500
One Generation Away$500
Life Forward$100

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$82k · 6 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$82k

$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+156%

Still filing today

50%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationReligionFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

JP
Joshua's Place
5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +144%
BC
Butler County Warbirds
4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +9%
LS
Lovesome Stables
2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +21%

Funded once

MH
Moeller High School
one grant, 2020 · $30k
BL
Burning Limb Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +86%
GE
Garrett ElementaryAlamance-Burlington School System
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

Joshua Mission

Philanthropy

From Pain to Purpose

Helping those in pain and crisis.

Religion

Look Pray Send Us

Religion

Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter

Bread of Life Mission

Provide shelter, meals, case management, spiritual guidance and vocational training to homeless men, women and women with children

Religion

Reaching Out to the Nations Inc

Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.

Religion

Lespri Ministries

Lespri Ministries seeks to see the country of Haiti transformed through: valuing educating equipping and empowering Haitis orphans children and youth with a special emphasis on leadership training and practical preparatory skills for life.…

International

Opal Ministries Inc

Serving churches and christian leaders in the majority world by equipping them with affordable bibles and quality evangelical literture.

Religion

The Mission House Cincinnati

To coordinate teams of all ages, cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds to areas of spiritual diversity depravity

Religion

Passion Rescue Mission Inc

Passion Rescue Mission is a non-profit 501 C 3 organization offering help hope and healing to poor urban and dispirited multicultural communities locally and especially in Haiti Our mission is a life-changing message of love focusing on…

Education

Map 10 40

To minister the gospel of jesus christ to poor people, leper colonies, and ethnic groups in sri lanka, israel, india, spain, and several eastern under-reached african nations that do not have access to christian churches

Religion

Mission Go Global

Go into all the world to preach the Gospel

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Gospel Mission and Affiliates and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

16/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$76,486Food & Nutrition$41,300Health$25,000Arts & Culture$14,500Human Services$7,700Community Improvement$4,000Religion$3,250

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.

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.

Network for GoodDC10.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving 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 organisation Mick & Melissa Kowitz 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.

2024

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Lovesome Stables.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 261783414 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Lovesome Stables, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation?

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Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation?

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