· Private foundation
The Kohl 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $761k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS | $50,000 |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $30,000 |
| GRACE | $30,000 |
| SUMMIT MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| THRIVE WOMEN'S CLINIC | $25,000 |
| GATEWAY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| TACA | $25,000 |
| MISSION ARLINGTON | $25,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| THE STEWPOT | $25,000 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $25,000 |
| CHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER | $25,000 |
| AUSTIN STREET SHELTER | $25,000 |
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, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- SMSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +118%
- CFCHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +43%
- DLDALLAS LIFE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MIMOAZ ISRAEL MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $5k
- GHGOOD HOPE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k
- GDGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +24%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
Davar audio bibles' mission is to create opportunities for oral learners to fully experience the bible in their home language.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Modern Day Missions and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 72 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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BREAD BASKET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TACA INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Irving Symphony Orchestra Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PSALMS OF DAVID ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Monastery ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
- Who funds Irving Cares 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: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Sarah and Ross Perot Jr Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse 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 Kohl 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University 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.