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Peter C and Charlene J Kesling Foundation at a glance

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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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$511kCommunity Improvement$50kReligion$30kAnimals$20kHuman Services$13kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$300Food & Nutrition$40Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAPORTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$80,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE BARKER WELFARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%Winton World Wide: $100 → 11%Art Barn School of Art Inc: $500 → 9%AUBURN CORD DUSENBERG AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: $10k → 9%The Woman's Clubhouse Association: $3k → 12%Scipio-Geneva Township Fire Department Inc: $300 → 12%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 13%Friends of the Snite Museum of Art: $200 → 13%LAPORTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $145k → 15%Indiana Historical Society: $500 → 16%AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: $500 → 9%CASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 13%LAPORTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $80k → 15%Indiana Historical Society: $500 → 16%Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum: $100 → 9%Cass County Historical Society Inc: $1k → 13%La Porte County Historical Society: $71k → 15%INDIANA BARN FOUNDATION INC: $200 → 16%Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum: $100 → 9%Cass County Historical Society Inc: $1k → 13%La Porte County Historical Society: $38k → 15%INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50 → 16%Cass County Historical Society Inc: $400 → 13%LAPORTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32k → 15%La Porte County Historical Society: $30k → 15%Greater LaPorte Economic Development Corporation: $30k → 15%LAPORTE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 15%RUMELY ALLIS-CHALMERS LAPORTE HERITAGE CORPORATION: $10k → 15%GREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 15%RUMLEY ALLIS-CHALMERS HERITAGE LAPORTE HERITAGE CENTER: $10k → 15%PINHOOK METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 15%LAPORTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 15%CITY OF LAPORTE URBAN ENTERPRISE ZONE: $5k → 15%Greater LaPorte Economic Development Corporation: $5k → 15%La Porte Little Theatre: $2k → 15%LAPORTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 15%ST STANISLAUS KOSTKA CHURCH: $10k → 15%LaPorte SDA Church: $100 → 15%SAINT STANISLAUS KOSTKA CHURCH: $10k → 15%THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $40 → 15%THE WASHINGTON PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $10k → 15%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$513k · 6 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
21

Total granted

$513k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+43%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • LC
    LAPORTE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $407k · 53% of their budget
  • GL
    GREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $45k · revenue -25%
  • LP
    LA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue -4% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • RA
    RUMLEY ALLIS-CHALMERS HERITAGE LAPORTE HERITAGE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TB
    THE BARKER WELFARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -37%
  • RA
    RUMELY ALLIS CHALMERS LA PORTE HERITAGE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

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Hamilton County Historical Society

To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana

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2
Laporte County Historical Steam Society Inc

The organization operates a museum to display antique steam and gasoline engines and related equipment to the general public.

Arts & Culture
3
Darke County Historical Society

Operation of museum

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4
Starke County Historical Society

Preserve history of starke county indiana

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5
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
6
Muskegon Heritage Association

Maintain historical museum

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7
Union County Historical Society

Preservation of union county iowa hisorical information and artifacts.

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8
Bureau County Historical Society
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9
Jasper County Historical Society of Iowa

Owns and operates the jasper county historical museum which collects, preserves and exhibits artifacts

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10
East Liverpool Historical Society
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11
Iron County Historical Society Inc

Preserve and advance knowledge of the history of the area

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12
Algonac-Clay Township Historical Society

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laporte Co Historical Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAPORTE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $407,460 · Arts & CultureLAPORTE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCLA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureLA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC+2 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureCASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $22,400 · OtherCASS COUNTY HISTORICAL …RUMLEY ALLIS-CHALMERS HERITAGE LAPORTE HERITAGE CENTER: $10,000 · OtherRUMLEY ALLIS-CHALMERS H…THE BARKER WELFARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE BARKER WELFARE FOUN…RUMELY ALLIS CHALMERS LA PORTE HERITAGE CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherRUMELY ALLIS CHALMERS L…MICHIGAN CITY HISTORICAL SOCIE: $10,000 · OtherMICHIGAN CITY HISTORICA…AUBURN CORD DUSENBERG AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherAUBURN CORD DUSENBERG A…LAPORTE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherLAPORTE COUNTY PUBLIC L…THE WASHINGTON PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON PARK ZOO…PINHOOK METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherPINHOOK METHODIST CHURC…ST STANISLAUS KOSTKA CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherST STANISLAUS KOSTKA CH…SAINT STANISLAUS KOSTKA CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherSAINT STANISLAUS KOSTKA…+8 more: $6,640 · OtherGREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 · Community ImprovementLAPORTE URBAN ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN CITY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIE: $10,000 · AnimalsSCIPIO GENEVA TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $300 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$444,710Other$129,040Community Improvement$50,000Animals$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAPORTE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $407,460 over 8y, 53% of budgetGREATER LAPORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLA PORTE LITTLE THEATRE CLUB INC: $36,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetCASS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $22,400 over 5y, 37% of budgetTHE BARKER WELFARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN CITY HISTORICAL SOCIE: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMICHIGAN CITY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLAPORTE URBAN ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART BARN SCHOOL OF ART INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCIPIO GENEVA TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 THE BARKER WELFARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN CITY HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Peter C and Charlene J Kesling Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter C and Charlene J Kesling Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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