· Private foundation
Robert August Koranda Memorial Foundation C/O Kenneth R Koranda
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of ROBERT AUGUST KORANDA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION C/O KENNETH R KORANDA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| GLENWOOD ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| NORWICH FAMILY YMCA | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVE | $500 |
| NAPERVILLE RESPONDS TO VETERANS | $300 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those 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 +77% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF KISHWAUKETOE2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +67%
- GLGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +146%
- LFLITTLE FRIENDS INC3× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSTYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $9k
- WSWEST SUBURBAN PHILANTHROPIC NETWORK INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.
Naperville chamber of commerce ("nacc") began operations in 1913 and is incorporated under the general not-for-profit corporation act of the state of illinois. the naperville area chamber of commerce has one goal and that is to move…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The association has a mission to build long term relationships with niu alumni and friends by communicating the message of excellence and creating opportunities for alumni and friends of the university to interact with the university…
North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Naperville Responds for Our Veterans. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KISHWAUKETOE ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds CENTURY WALK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOREST PRESERVES ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF NORWICH ↗
- Who funds THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Neil & Ginny Gerald Family Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Robert August Koranda Memorial Foundation C/O Kenneth R Koranda 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.
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