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The K6 Family Foundation at a glance

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The K6 Family 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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$14kInternational$13kHuman Services$11kYouth Development$7kCrime & Legal$3kFood & Nutrition$3kEducation$2kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$545k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MATTHEW MANGINE JR FOUNDATION INC$6,000
ESPERANZA LATINO CENTER OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC$2,500
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES$2,500
BOLTZSTRONG$2,000
BUILD THE FUTURE US INC$1,500
MAY-WE-HELP$1,000
HIS EYES INCORPORATED$1,000
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%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.
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 3 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$19k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • EL
    ESPERANZA LATINO CENTER OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue -32%
  • MW
    MAY WE HELP INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • EC
    ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROJECT SHELUKA
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • BC
    BOONE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • GP
    GO PANTRY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +13%
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
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
2
Handicap International

Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.

International
3
Caminar Latino Inc

Caminar latino creates opportunities for latino families to transform their lives and communities and works to change the social conditions that give rise to violence.

Human Services
4
Beyond Blindness

Beyond blindness empowers children with visual impairments and other disabilities to achieve their fullest potential.

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5
Visability

Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams

Human Services
6
Lions Industries for the Blind Inc

Employment of the blind and visually impaired

Employment
7
El Grupo Vida Inc

Empower immigrants with disabilities and their families with information, training and direct advocacy to help them become more self-sufficient and give our community a voice, raising awareness about our rights.

Human Services
8
Independent Living Options Inc

Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.

—
9
La Casita Center Inc

La casita center enhances the well-being of louisville's latinx community through education, empowerment, advocacy, and wellness. la casita center works intentionally to build a thriving community based on mutual support and respect.

Human Services
10
Restoringvision

To empower lives by restoring vision for millions of people in need.

Health
11
Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc

Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.

Environment
12
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc; the most unlike its peers is His Eyes Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT SHELUKA: $12,440 · OtherPROJECT SHELUKAESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 · OtherESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICESBOONE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT: $3,000 · OtherBOONE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENTBOLTZSTRONG: $2,000 · OtherBOLTZSTRONGBUILD THE FUTURE US INC: $1,500 · OtherTONYS FIGHT INC: $1,000 · OtherHIS EYES INC: $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,500 · OtherTHE MATTHEW MANGINE JR FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MATTHEW MA…GUATEMALAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH INC: $1,200 · Youth DevelopmentGUATEMALAN EDU…ESPERANZA LATINO CENTER OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $7,000 · Community ImprovementESPERANZA LATI…MAY WE HELP INC: $6,000 · HealthMAY WE HELP …GO PANTRY CORPORATION: $2,500 · Food & NutritionCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$29,440Youth Development$7,200Community Improvement$7,000Health$6,000Food & Nutrition$2,500Philanthropy$2,000Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetESPERANZA LATINO CENTER OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMAY WE HELP INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGO PANTRY CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUATEMALAN EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouies Legacy Animal Rescue: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Duke Energy FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The K6 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The K6 Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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