· Private foundation
The Klungness Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SCIENCES FO | $521,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRUST | $350,450 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC | $250,000 |
| WILDERNESS WATCH INC | $220,950 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC | $180,000 |
| PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY | $172,500 |
| U C SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| NEW POWER TOUR INC | $150,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $115,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRUST | $103,050 |
| KEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Klungness Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- EHENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRUST4× · 2020–2023 · $497k · revenue +44% · 63% of their budget
- WWWILDERNESS WATCH INC5× · 2019–2023 · $432k · revenue +34% · 26% of their budget
- NPNEW POWER TOUR INC3× · 2021–2023 · $225k · revenue +140% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- AHALMOST HOME ANIMAL SHELTER AND ADOPTION CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $50k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +23%
- CFCITIZENS FOR HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $7k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
NatureServe's mission is to leverage the power of science, data, and technology to guide biodiversity conservation and stewardship. We activate our mission by working with a network of 60+ partners located in states and provinces across…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Ems Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 109 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 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW POWER TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds REID PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds KEWEENAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENTIFIC ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COPPER HARBOR TRAILS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds North American Wilderness Recovery ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK TRAILS CLUB ↗
- Who funds KEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGICAL OPTIONS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds SWAN VIEW COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR BIO-CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER COUNTRY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BARBARA KETTLE GUNDLACH SHELTER HOME FOR ABUSED WOMEN INC ↗
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: Copper Shores Community Health Foundation · James a Ruppe Foundation · Keweenaw Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · Resources Legacy Fund · The Martin Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Joyce and Warren Brule Foundation · Dickinson Area Community Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Superior Health Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation 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 The Klungness Family 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.
- Lomakatsi Restoration Project — 100% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.