How much does Nkc Family Foundation give?

Nkc Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $2,222,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Nkc Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (17%), Human Services (17%), Education (14%).

Who are Nkc Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aurora Christian Schools ($919k), Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries ($633k), Wayside Cross Ministries ($616k).

Does Nkc Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nkc 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 Nkc Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, Motorola Solutions Foundation.

Where is Nkc Family Foundation based?

Nkc Family Foundation is based in IL.

Nkc Family Foundation

Nkc Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$2.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.0MHuman Services$2.0MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.0MFood & Nutrition$782kInternational$580kCrime & Legal$492kOther$0

02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $19k
$10k–50k11 grants · $255k
$50k–250k21 grants · $1.9M

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

$42M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AURORA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS	$150,000
WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES	$150,000
Individual grant recipient	$150,000
ROCK HOUSE KIDS	$150,000
ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES	$100,000
CURE INTERNATIONAL	$100,000
INSPIRATION MINISTRIES	$100,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE	$100,000
ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION	$100,000
ADMINISTER JUSTICE	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 65 repeat orgs$955k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$665k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+125%

Still filing today

60%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AC
AURORA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
8× · 2017–2025 · $919k · revenue +40%
RR
ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $633k · revenue +15%
EC
ELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES
7× · 2019–2025 · $435k · revenue +42%

Funded once

SH
SHEPARD'S HEART MINISTRIESFIRST BAPTIST OF GENEVA
one grant, 2017 · $120k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $50k
BC
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +143%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services

David's House Ministries

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…

Housing & Shelter

David's House

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…

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Refuge of Hope Ministries

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.

Religion

Lighthouse Christian Home and Services Inc

For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.

Human Services

Friendship Home of Lincoln Inc

To provide emergency shelter

Human Services

United Methodist Ministry With Children and Families Inc

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…

Human Services

Found in Faith Ministries Inc Dba Fresh Start Furnishings

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.

Human Services

Collins Home Family Ministries

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…

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Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion

Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries Inc

To provide, through the power of jesus christ, a home for the homeless, food for the hungry, and hope for their future.

Housing & Shelter

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

46/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,365,500Education$2,182,020Human Services$2,175,000Food & Nutrition$757,000Health$552,500Youth Development$496,000Religion$370,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Dupage Community FoundationIL29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nkc Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nkc Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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