· Private foundation
The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc
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: 58% of THE ERNEST AND MARILYN KUSSMAUL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $590k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $55,000 |
| WEST SAYVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $37,500 |
| ST ANNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $37,500 |
| LONG ISLAND MARITIME MUSEUM | $37,500 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES | $37,000 |
| ISLAND HARVEST | $37,000 |
| NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE | $27,500 |
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH | $27,500 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $27,500 |
| ST MICHAEL ALL ANGELS EPISC CH | $27,500 |
| INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK | $27,000 |
| ST PATRICKS CHURCH FOOD PANTY | $27,000 |
| HARVESTERS COMM FOOD NETWORK | $26,000 |
| THE ENTERTAINMENT COMM FUND | $22,000 |
| YMCA OF THE GREAT SOUTH BAY | $18,000 |
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, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- LILONG ISLAND MARITIME MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +41%
- WSWEST SAYVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +65%
- LILong Island Cares Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- TETHE ENTERTAINMENT COMM FUNDone grant, 2024 · $22k
- SLST LUKES LUTHERN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +20%
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.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
The musical theater center's mission is to share the joy of children's theater with many diverse audiences. it strives to be a positive force in the community by providing exceptional musical theater stage productions made up entirely of…
Long wharf theatre is dedicated to producing boundary-breaking theatre with and for its many, kaleidoscopic communities. our vision is theatre for everyone.
The irish repertory theatre (the "theatre") mission is to bring works by irish and irish american masters and contemporary playwrights to american audiences, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary irish american experience…
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Signature theatre celebrates playwrights and gives them an artistic home. signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright's body of work, producing several plays by each resident writer and delivering an intimate and immersive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is West Sayville Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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 LONG ISLAND MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WEST SAYVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
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: Theater League Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Ernest and Marilyn Kussmaul Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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.