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The Kunkle Cabe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Arts & Culture$343kHuman Services$200kEducation$196kReligion$146kYouth Development$130kHousing & Shelter$105kCrime & Legal$100kHealth$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILDWOOD PARK FOR THE ARTS$75,000
CATTLE BARON'S BALL$50,000
THE NETWORK GROUP INC$50,000
MEN OF NEHEMIAH$25,000
CASA DEL LAGO$25,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS$25,000
COVENANT SCHOOL$15,000
PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $25k → 14%LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB: $25k → 10%COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOL ENCOUNTERS (COVE): $25k → 10%LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
CA
CO
MO
VA
AR
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 19 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
18

Total granted

$1.3M
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+20%

Still filing today

58%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • EM
    ESPERANZA MINISTRIES
    6× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +423%
  • SA
    Sandcastles A Lake Michigan Childrens Museum
    6× · 2018–2024 · $113k · revenue +58%
  • CK
    Covenant Knights School
    4× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • CC
    CROSSHAIRS CHARITABLE FOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • CO
    COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
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
3
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
4
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
5
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
7
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
8
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

12
Trinity Park Conservancy

Trinity Park Conservancy champions the transformation of the Trinity River to become the heart of Dallas. With the community, the Conservancy will design public spaces that unite us, enrich people's lives through access to nature, create…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is West Shore Community College Foundation. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ESPERANZA MINISTRIES — $145,000 · OtherESPERANZA MINISTRIESEPWORTH CHURCH ASSOCIATION — $130,500 · OtherEPWORTH CHURCH ASSOCIATIONCATTLE BARON'S BALL — $75,000 · OtherCATTLE BARON'S BALLLUDINGTON SCHOOLS YOUTH RESOURCE CENTER — $60,000 · OtherLUDINGTON SCHOOLS YOUTH RESOURCE CENTERTHE COVE — $30,000 · OtherWEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $30,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $30,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $50,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY+22 more — $297,000 · Other+22 moreWildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc — $200,000 · Arts & CultureWildwood Park for the…Sandcastles A Lake Michigan Childrens Museum — $112,500 · Arts & CultureSandcastles A Lake Mi…Covenant Knights School — $80,000 · EducationCovenant K…WEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationWEST SHORE…ST LOUIS BRIDGE CENTER — $22,000 · EducationST LOUIS B…The Network Group Inc — $100,000 · Crime & LegalLAKESHORE FOOD CLUB — $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO — $25,000 · Human ServicesMEN OF NEHEMIAH INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $25,000 · HealthYOUNG LIFE — $60,000 · Youth Development
Other$847,500Arts & Culture$312,500Education$147,000Crime & Legal$100,000Human Services$80,000Health$75,000Youth Development$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetESPERANZA MINISTRIES — $145,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetSandcastles A Lake Michigan Childrens Museum — $112,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetThe Network Group Inc — $100,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCovenant Knights School — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLAKESHORE FOOD CLUB — $30,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS BRIDGE CENTER — $22,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH TOON CHARITIES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts Inc
  • Who funds ESPERANZA MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Sandcastles A Lake Michigan Childrens Museum
  • Who funds The Network Group Inc
  • Who funds Covenant Knights School
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
  • Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
  • Who funds WEST SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC
  • Who funds MEN OF NEHEMIAH INC
  • Who funds ST LOUIS BRIDGE CENTER
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST
  • Who funds ELIZABETH TOON CHARITIES
  • Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Kunkle Cabe 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Kunkle Cabe Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Kunkle Cabe Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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