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The Kuehlthau Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kuehlthau 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.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$381kInternational$164kCivil Rights$106kReligion$90kArts & Culture$66kRecreation & Sports$41kHealth$25kFood & Nutrition$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$80,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAINT ROCK FORST RESEARCH CENTER$80,000
ATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER$12,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pathfinder International: $5k → 8%CBSGAmphibian Ark: $5k → 6%DIRECT RELIEF: $20k → 14%UNICEF: $10k → 17%BAITULMALL INC: $10k → 14%RAICES: $10k → 16%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $50k → 14%HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 11%PAINT ROCK FORST RESEARCH CENTER: $80k → 16%Southern Poverty Law Center: $5k → 18%SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN: $5k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OREGON: $10k → 12%Nature Conservancy of Oregon: $5k → 13%Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc: $5k → 8%PATH: $5k → 9%Olympia Yacht Club Foundation: $10k → 9%Puget Sound Restoration Fund: $6k → 10%Community Boating Center: $5k → 12%STARR OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%Atchafalaya Basinkeeper: $16k → 19%DIRECT RELIEF: $20k → 14%Rails to Trails Conservancy: $5k → 14%Huntsville Museum of Art: $5k → 11%Southern Poverty Law Center: $5k → 18%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OREGON: $5k → 12%ATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER: $12k → 19%URBAN TREE CONNECTION: $6k → 22%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%Hispanic Foundation: $10k → 17%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ACLU of Alabama Foundation: $20k → 18%WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $6k → 9%ACLU of Alabama Foundation: $10k → 18%OLYMPIA ZEN CENTER: $14k → 9%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $10k → 17%ACLU OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $6k → 9%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $6k → 17%Environmental Defense Fund: $10k → 14%ACLU of Alabama Foundation: $10k → 18%Landtrust of North Alabama: $30k → 11%LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA: $25k → 11%CENTRAL NEW YORK LAND TRUST INC: $10k → 14%Landtrust of North Alabama: $20k → 11%CENTRAL NEW YORK LAND TRUST INC: $10k → 14%LAND TRUST OF ALABAMA: $10k → 11%ASSISTING ROMANIAN MINISTRIES: $30k → 11%ASSISTING ROMANIAN MINISTRIES: $30k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$733k · 32 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
28

Total granted

$733k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • TL
    THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $75k · revenue +43%
  • RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +35%
  • TC
    THE CENTRAL NEW YORK LAND TRUST INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue ×19

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -4%
  • LT
    LAND TRUST OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • BI
    BAITULMAAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
7
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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8
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Assisting Romanian Ministries. 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

43 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. 43 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAINT ROCK FOREST RESEARCH CENTER: $80,000 · EnvironmentPAINT ROCK FOREST RESEARCH CENTERTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INCRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $55,000 · EnvironmentRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCYTHE CENTRAL NEW YORK LAND TRUST INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTRAL NEW YORK LAND TRUST INCATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC: $37,500 · EnvironmentATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Environment+2 more: $8,000 · EnvironmentASSISTING ROMANIAN MINISTRIES: $60,000 · InternationalASSISTING ROMANIAN MINISTRIE…DIRECT RELIEF: $40,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFTOSTAN INC: $31,000 · InternationalTOSTAN INCPATH: $26,000 · InternationalPATHMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $15,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 · InternationalGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $10,000 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · International+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $22,000 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATIONEVERSON MUSEUM OF ART: $19,000 · OtherEVERSON MUSEUM OF ARTOLYMPIA ZEN CENTER: $17,000 · OtherOLYMPIA ZEN CENTERHispanic Foundation: $15,000 · OtherHispanic FoundationOLYMPIA YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherLAND TRUST OF ALABAMA: $10,000 · OtherSTARR OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherHARRIS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · OtherFood Bank of North Alabama Inc: $12,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $10,000 · Other+17 more: $76,400 · Other+17 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 · Civil RightsMUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE: $27,500 · Arts & CultureMusical Associates of Central New York: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $3,000 · Crime & LegalBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ROCK PHILLY: $4,000 · Youth Development
Environment$315,500International$249,000Other$271,400Civil Rights$60,000Arts & Culture$42,500Crime & Legal$28,000Youth Development$24,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetASSISTING ROMANIAN MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CENTRAL NEW YORK LAND TRUST INC: $45,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC: $37,500 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTOSTAN INC: $31,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE: $27,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPATH: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of North Alabama Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusical Associates of Central New York: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LAND POWER PROJECT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ROCK PHILLY: $4,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE RIVERKEEPER: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 Propst FoundationWallace E Kirkpatrick…The Jane K Lowe Chari…Community Foundation …Parker Griffith Famil…PatagoniaorgThe Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
The Propst FoundationAL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Propst Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Kuehlthau Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kuehlthau Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Access: 65% of income from government
  • Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 62 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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