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Nkc 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AURORA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $150,000 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| ROCK HOUSE KIDS | $150,000 |
| ADMINISTER JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| INSPIRATION MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $100,000 |
| ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $100,000 |
| ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| NAOMI'S HOUSE - MOODY CHURCH | $90,000 |
| AGAPE HOUSE | $80,000 |
| STARS FAMILY SERVICES | $78,000 |
| REFUGE FOR WOMEN CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| EVANGELICAL CHILD & FAMILY AGENCY | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
65 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k 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
- ACAURORA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $919k · revenue +40%
- RRROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $633k · revenue +15%
- ECELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES7× · 2019–2025 · $435k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SHSHEPARD'S HEART MINISTRIESFIRST BAPTIST OF GENEVAone grant, 2017 · $120k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- BCBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +143%
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.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and…
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
To provide emergency shelter
Methodist childrens homes seeks to bring restoration to children and youth who have been neglected or abused. by the end of their time with us, we hope to see that they find reconciliation with their biological families, love within an…
We provide furniture and home goods to families and individuals that financially qualify for our program. our current focus area is harford county, maryland but are happy to give referrals to resources in other counties when possible.
Collins family ministries, inc. exists to embody the love of christ by providing compassion to families, children, and at-risk youth who are experiencing hardship. we provide shelter for children, strength to families, and stability to our…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To provide, through the power of jesus christ, a home for the homeless, food for the hungry, and hope for their future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northern Illinois University Foundation. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 97 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 AURORA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROCK HOUSE KIDS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Stars Family Services ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CARING NETWORK NFP ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PHIL'S FRIENDS NFP ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ↗
- Who funds FELLOW MORTALS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds 222 Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASEYS SAFE HAVEN HOLISTIC RESCUE & SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds RADICAL LOVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Motorola Solutions Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · AbbVie Foundation · The Bersted Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Northern Illinois Food Bank · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc
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 Nkc 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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