· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of Mick & Melissa Kowitz 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 $10k13 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Joshua's Place | $10,000 |
| Proem Ministries | $10,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $5,000 |
| The Library Foundation | $1,250 |
| Agape International Missions | $1,250 |
| Our Rescue Mission | $1,250 |
| Lovesome Stables | $1,250 |
| Shower the People | $625 |
| Serving Orphans Worldwide | $625 |
| Thistle Farms | $625 |
| One Generation Away | $625 |
| We Need Diverse Books | $500 |
| Greenwood Community Church | $500 |
| Life Forward | $100 |
| Yellow Ribbon Support Center | $100 |
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 (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- BCBUTLER COUNTY WARBIRDS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +9%
- LSLOVESOME STABLES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +17%
- LFLIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC4× · 2021–2025 · $800 · revenue +4%
Funded once
- MHMoeller High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $30k
- BLBURNING LIMB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +4%
- GEGarrett ElementaryAlamance-Burlington School Systemone grant, 2021 · $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.
To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…
Humanitarian / EducationSOWERS stands for Serving Orphans Widows Educating & Reaching Society.Founded in 2001 by Rev. Jayakumar Babu Salluri, Pastor Jay, God has used this ministry to educate 1,048 pastors, start and support 170 village…
Journey To Destiny Ministries (JTDM) is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization committed to transforming and restoring dignity, hope, and opportunity to vulnerable individualsespecially children, women, and families affected by…
New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…
Global commission partners is an evangelical missionary not for profit organization dedicated to evaluate and support native ministries who are planting the gospel of jesus christ among unreach people groups in poor countries.
This ministry is committed to reaching the unchurched in our society and around the world. We are training individuals around the world to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their communities. Benevolence is provided in poor communites…
Encourgage and support missions and gospel of jesus christ in us and abroad.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agape International Missions and the most unlike its peers is We Need Diverse Books. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 Joshua's Place ↗
- Who funds BURNING LIMB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY WARBIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds LOVESOME STABLES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds GO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds SHOWER THE PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Agape International Missions ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
- Who funds LIFE FORWARD PREGNANCY CARE OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Serving Orphans Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds Christian Alliance for Orphans ↗
- Who funds THE CONTRIBUTOR INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYNC 8 PROJECT CORP ↗
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.
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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 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.
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.