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Paul and Patricia Kuehner Family Foundation at a glance

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Paul and Patricia Kuehner 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.

$344k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$1.0MReligion$939kEnvironment$245kHuman Services$150kHealth$76kYouth Development$75kEducation$61kCivil Rights$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAVENY CARE CENTER INC$100,000
ATLANTIC CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP LTD$50,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC$50,000
ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORPORATION$50,000
FAMILY LEGACY MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL$31,100
SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE SAFINA CENTER$25,000
NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM COMPANY INC$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 21 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$2.4M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+55%

Still filing today

86%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TC
    THE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER
    6× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +12%
  • AF
    AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $76k · revenue +8%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOPE FOR HAITI INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -15%
  • FT
    Free the Oppressed
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -24%
  • AL
    AFRICAN LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
7
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
International Federation of Accountants

Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…

Education
10
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
11
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
12
Robert a Toigo Foundation

Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; the most unlike its peers is African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries. 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

32 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. 32 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HALFTIME INSTITUTE: $575,000 · OtherHALFTIME INSTITUTEFamily Legacy Missions International: $335,158 · OtherFamily Legacy Missions InternationalGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN INC: $125,000 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN INCST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORP: $124,000 · OtherST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORPCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Other+11 more: $234,750 · Other+11 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $399,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $77,500 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL INCINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $55,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSIO…HEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $51,250 · InternationalHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $40,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICE…HOPE FOR HAITI INC: $25,000 · InternationalFree the Oppressed: $25,000 · InternationalWAVENY CARE CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $76,000 · HealthTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER: $115,000 · EnvironmentNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentATLANTIC CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP LTD: $50,000 · AnimalsSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $40,000 · EducationFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 · EducationFairfield University: $10,000 · EducationST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $5,000 · EducationNATURAL HIGH: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,443,908International$672,750Health$176,000Environment$135,000Animals$90,000Education$90,000Community Improvement$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHALFTIME INSTITUTE: $575,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $399,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Legacy Missions International: $335,158 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER: $115,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetWAVENY CARE CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $77,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $76,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL HIGH: $75,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING WATERS INTERNATIONAL INC: $51,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE ME AN ANSWER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChild Advocates of Connecticut Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFree the Oppressed: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFairfield University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP AND RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …The Ayco Charitable F…O'Connor Family Found…The John and Ethel Ka…The Scripps Family Fu…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Half Moon FoundationHobbs Family Charitab…The Richard & Barbara…The Near and Far Asso…National Philanthropi…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT25.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · O'Connor Family Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Half Moon Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio · The Near and Far Association Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Paul and Patricia Kuehner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul and Patricia Kuehner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Paul and Patricia Kuehner Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home