· Private foundation
Sylvester and Tessie Kaminski 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| South Bend Symphony Orchestra | $1,787 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Queen of Peace Church | $1,250 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
94 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PFPOLISH FALCONS OF AMERICA NEST 47× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +34%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +63%
- SBSOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…
The home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in 1839 & serves the elderly in 31 countries. the st. augustine home, which provides nursing & residential care for (see…
Safe housing, independence, and stability
To provide shelter, meals, and comprehensive support to families without homes.
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
"we freely offer meals, fellowship, dignity and respect to all who come through our doors"
To provide, through the power of jesus christ, a home for the homeless, food for the hungry, and hope for their future.
We prepare and deliver essential nutritious meals to our community, promoting health, wellness, and independence of all, with the support of a diverse and engaged community network.
The bangsund dwelling place, nfp is a state licensed adult family home that provides low-income housing and care to developmentally disabled individuals.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Retreat House welcomes people of all faiths to come away and rest in God. We offer hospitality, a peaceful setting with a supportive environment for reflection, and programs for spiritual renewal.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 172 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 POLISH FALCONS OF AMERICA NEST 4 ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BEND CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds St Margarets House ↗
- Who funds FOREVER LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM RECOVERY COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: University of Notre Dame du Lac · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Asante Foundation Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · The Garatoni-Smith Family Foundation · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Radiology Inc Foundation · Hayes Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sylvester and Tessie Kaminski Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sylvester and Tessie Kaminski Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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