Ohio · Private foundation
Mick & Melissa Kowitz 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.
- $34k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $625
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $547k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $34k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $30k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $30k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $16k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $47k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $49k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua's Place | $51,300 | 6 | 3% |
| Moeller High School | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Burning Limb Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Butler County Warbirds Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Lovesome Stables Inc | $7,250 | 3 | 5% |
| Our Rescue | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Urban Promise Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Go Ministries Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $2,800 | 1 | 0% |
| We Need Diverse Books | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua's Place | $51,300 | 6 | 3% |
| Moeller High School | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Burning Limb Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Butler County Warbirds Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Lovesome Stables Inc | $7,250 | 3 | 5% |
| Our Rescue | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Urban Promise Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Go Ministries Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $2,800 | 1 | 0% |
| We Need Diverse Books | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Shower the People | $1,625 | 2 | 1% |
| Agape International Missions | $1,250 | 1 | n/a |
| One Generation Away | $1,125 | 2 | 0% |
| Life Forward Pregnancy Care of Cincinnati Inc | $800 | 4 | 0% |
| Serving Orphans Worldwide Inc | $625 | 1 | n/a |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $625 | 1 | 0% |
| Christian Alliance for Orphans | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenwood Community Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Contributor Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| City Gospel Mission and Affiliates | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Lync 8 Project Corp | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Yellow Ribbon Support Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation with peer funders
About Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation
- How much does Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation give?
- Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $33,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Religion (21%), Education (20%).
- Who are Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Joshua's Place ($51k), Moeller High School ($30k), Burning Limb Foundation ($25k).
- Does Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Hca Healthcare Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation based?
- Mick & Melissa Kowitz Family Foundation is based in OH.
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