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Ronald and Eva Kinney Family Foundation at a glance

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Ronald and Eva Kinney Family 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.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
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 2024.

Health$761kReligion$480kEducation$466kCivil Rights$403kArts & Culture$284kPhilanthropy$253kEnvironment$120kInternational$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$2,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$100,000
BIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH$50,000
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$29,500
FRIENDS OF ST MALACHY$20,000
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH$20,000
MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS$19,000
POCOAPOCO$10,500
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$10,000
ASPEN CHAPEL$5,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$5,000
FRIENDS OF ST MALACHY$5,000
ASPEN CHAPEL$5,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$5,000
MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $3k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%JOURNEYMAN INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 10%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $3k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $13k → 11%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $12k → 11%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $10k → 11%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $10k → 11%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $10k → 11%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 55 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
12

Total granted

$2.7M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

71%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • MS
    MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +65%
  • AC
    ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +134%
  • LH
    LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH
    4× · 2017–2020 · $51k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SOUP KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • EI
    English in Actiongraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +40%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -11%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
11
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Aspen Homeless Shelter. 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

58 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. 58 of the 81 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $650,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICOUR LADY OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC SCHOO: $213,800 · OtherOUR LADY OF THE LAKE CATHOLIC SCHOOST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $197,800 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHFRIENDS OF ST MALACHY: $77,294 · OtherLAKULISH INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP ENDOWMENT: $71,059 · OtherASPEN CHAPEL: $67,000 · Other+40 more: $437,502 · Other+40 moreBIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC: $400,000 · Civil RightsBIRTHRIGHT OF …MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $167,500 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS…KRIPALVANANDA YOGA INSTITUTE INC: $73,645 · Arts & CultureKRIPALVANAN…GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THE…THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER: $13,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $25,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $240,700 · PhilanthropyASPEN COM…BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCARLETON COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationBROOKS SCHOOL: $20,500 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $20,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationHEART OF WINOOSKI FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationEnglish in Action: $7,500 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $6,000 · Education+5 more: $16,500 · EducationASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $117,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10,500 · EnvironmentLAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH: $51,000 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $20,000 · HealthHospice at Home Inc: $18,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · Health
Other$1,714,455Civil Rights$400,000Arts & Culture$315,645Philanthropy$253,200Education$168,500Environment$127,500Health$99,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC: $400,000 over 8y, 38% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $240,700 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $167,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $117,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKRIPALVANANDA YOGA INSTITUTE INC: $73,645 over 7y, 34% of budgetDOING GOOD TOGETHER: $54,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetLAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH: $51,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FOR PEOPLE: $26,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $20,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICARE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $18,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHospice at Home Inc: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLakulish International Fellowship's Endowment Foundation: $17,502 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASHOKA: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBunnys Buddies: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER: $13,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPocoapoco: $10,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWORLD FIGURE SPORT ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF WINOOSKI FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Base: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnglish in Action: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 BIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds KRIPALVANANDA YOGA INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOING GOOD TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds LAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATION BENTON HARBOR/STJOSEPH ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
  • Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AFRICARE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospice at Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lakulish International Fellowship's Endowment Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHOKA ↗
  • Who funds Bunnys Buddies ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds Pocoapoco ↗
  • Who funds WORLD FIGURE SPORT ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
  • Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗

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.

Berrien Community Fou…Hanson Family Foundat…Aspen Community Found…The Marzke Family Fou…Ruth a Carver Foundat…The Thrift ShopAlpenglow FoundationAspen Business Center…Arches FoundationThe Austin Memorial F…Castaways FoundationBrady Foundation
Berrien Community Foundation IncMI21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Hanson Family Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Marzke Family Foundation · Ruth a Carver Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Alpenglow Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Arches Foundation · The Austin Memorial Foundation · Castaways Foundation · Brady Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to Ronald and Eva Kinney Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ronald and Eva Kinney 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 81 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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