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Steven D Kienitz Family Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of STEVEN D KIENITZ FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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 |
|---|---|
| GINNIES HOUSE | $3,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $2,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| SAINT JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,250 |
| SUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE BASEBALL | $2,250 |
| PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY | $2,250 |
| SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| WHEELERS FOR THE WOUNDED | $1,000 |
| FATHER JOHN ANIMAL HOUSE | $500 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 82% 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
- PSPROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +63%
- FJFATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +34%
- SCSPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue ×88
Funded once
- SCSUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +31%
- TATHE ASHER HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +221%
- RWROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +48%
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 secure housing stability and sustainability for those in crisis, because everyone deserves a home.
The mission of ginnie's house children's advocacy center is to create a refuge of comfort, healing, hope, and justice for abused children, while providing community education and advocacy to prevent child abuse.
To serve as lifelong guardians and advocates for people with developmental disabilities who cannot acquire needed services independently. (continued on schedule o)we will work with persons with developmental disabilities, their families,…
To fund cystic fibrosis research, provide educational and personal support, and to spread awareness of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
Public and medical education and research
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
Promoting, assisting and supporting the sustainability and growth of casa programs in new jersey. casa programs promote the protection of abused and neglected children by using trained volunteers to advocate for these children in courts…
To identify children's needs through research, policy and legal analysis, to raise awareness of those needs through strategic communications, and to work with elected officials and other decision-makers to enact effective responses.
It is the mission of the new jersey firefighters mutual benevolent association to represent, protect, and educate the firefighters, emts, and dispatchers throughout the state of new jersey through representation at the local, state, and…
From those who have, to those who need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Self-Sufficiency of Sussex County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF SUSSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER JOHNS ANIMAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPARTA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCARC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KAREN ANN QUINLAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CURE DUCHENNE ↗
- Who funds PASS IT ALONG INC ↗
- Who funds SIGMA PI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
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: Perona Farms Foundation · Atlantic Health System Inc Group Return · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Provident Charities Inc · Deacon Family Foundation Inc · German Christmas Market of New Jersey Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Steven D Kienitz Family Charitable 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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