· Private foundation
Peter C and Charlene J Kesling Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAPORTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $80,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LCLAPORTE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $407k · 53% of their budget
- GLGREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2018–2021 · $45k · revenue -25%
- LPLA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC3× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue -4% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- RARUMELY ALLIS CHALMERS LA PORTE HERITAGE CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MCMICHIGAN CITY HISTORICAL SOCIEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +81%
- ACAUBURN CORD DUSENBERG AUTOMOBILE MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
The organization operates a museum to display antique steam and gasoline engines and related equipment to the general public.
Operation of museum
Preserve history of starke county indiana
Maintain historical museum
Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.
Owns and operates the jasper county historical museum which collects, preserves and exhibits artifacts
Preserve and advance knowledge of the history of the area
To preserve, advance and disseminate knowledge of the history of Algonac and Clay Township area. It may hold exhibits, stage pageants, erect markers, sponsor or engage in any activities consistant with its purpose.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laporte Co Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Porte Little Theatre Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 27 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 LAPORTE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CITY HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds THE BARKER WELFARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CITY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds LAPORTE URBAN ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ART BARN SCHOOL OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SCIPIO GENEVA TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Barn Foundation Incorporated ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Peter C and Charlene J Kesling 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.