Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Peter C Kern 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.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$130kEducation$89kHealth$68kHuman Services$13kReligion$10kArts & Culture$8kRecreation & Sports$6kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,857
Median grant
2
States reached
$922k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,858
Greyhound Adoption League$6,858
St Anastasia Church$6,858
Alliance for Eating Disorder Awareness$6,857
Denton Animal Support Fd$6,857
Parents & Friends of Princeton FFA$4,857
Hardeman County 4H$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Graceway Village: $6k → 13%Graceway Village: $5k → 13%Graceway Village: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$256k · 11 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +118% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$256k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+118%
-14%

Still filing today

45%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +118%
  • AA
    ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +286%
  • DA
    DOGS AND CATS FOREVER
    3× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CP
    Canton Public Schools
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • HC
    Hareman County 4H
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • NV
    National Veterans Memorial & Museum
    one grant, 2020 · $8k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Florida Little Dog Rescue Group Inc

To rescue rehabilitate and rehome homeless and abandoned pets.

Animals
2
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
3
Animal Nation Inc

Animal welfare organization providing rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption for wild, domestic, and farmed animals.

Animals
4
Love Them All

We specialize in saving the most at-risk and critical needs dogs facing unnecessary euthanasia in our local shelters. We provide every resource they need to ultimately become adoptable to their perfect forever home.

Animals
5
Animals in Distress

The organization is dedicated to the care and adoption of abandoned animals

Animals
6
Adopt-a-Dog Inc

To save, socialize and secure loving homes for unwanted or abandoned dogs.

Animals
7
Starfish Animal Rescue

To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.

Animals
8
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
9
Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals
10
Animal Defense League of Texas

The animal defense league of texas rescues homeless dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens, and provides medical treatment, nutrition, and shelter in a safe, live-release facility until they are matched with their forever families. through…

Animals
11
Delta Animal Shelter

Be the caring voice for animals in need.

Animals
12
Fort Defiance Humane Society

Animal sheltering

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grace Way Village 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $43,828 · OtherIndividual grant recipientParents & Friends of Princeton FFA — $31,649 · OtherParents & Friends of Princeton FFAGreyhound Adoption League — $13,395 · OtherGreyhound Adoption LeagueLinda McNatt Animal Care Ctr — $12,571 · OtherLinda McNatt Animal Care CtrCanton Public Schools — $9,527 · OtherHareman County 4H — $8,523 · OtherST ANASTASIA CATHOLIC CHURCH — $8,395 · OtherNational Veterans Memorial & Museum — $8,389 · OtherMEA OLAS PLACE — $7,870 · OtherDenton Animal Support Fd — $6,857 · OtherNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION — $6,200 · OtherPrinceton HS Athletic Booster — $6,200 · Other+6 more — $16,851 · Other+6 moreALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $39,960 · AnimalsALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INCDOGS AND CATS FOREVER — $18,211 · AnimalsDOGS AND CATS FOREVERCOLUMBUS HUMANE — $7,870 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS HUMANEDENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC — $7,488 · AnimalsDENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUND…GREYHOUND ADOPTION LEAGUE OF TEXAS — $6,200 · AnimalsGREYHOUND ADOPTION LEAGUE O…+1 more — $1,669 · AnimalsNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $59,556 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIANCE FO…GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC — $13,034 · Human Services
Other$180,255Animals$81,398Health$59,556Human Services$13,034

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC — $59,556 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $39,960 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDOGS AND CATS FOREVER — $18,211 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGRACE WAY VILLAGE INC — $13,034 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMEA OLAS PLACE — $7,870 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE — $7,870 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC — $7,488 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION — $6,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA INC — $1,669 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EATING DISORDERS INC
  • Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC
  • Who funds DOGS AND CATS FOREVER
  • Who funds GRACE WAY VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds MEA OLAS PLACE
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE
  • Who funds DENTON ANIMAL SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds GREYHOUND ADOPTION LEAGUE OF TEXAS
  • Who funds SPCA INC

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Kern 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Grace Way Village Inc4% of income from government
  • Dogs and Cats Forever1% of income from government
  • Spca Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph