· Private foundation
The Kusinski Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLNWAY WEST | $5,530 |
| BARRET BEAR CALLAGHAN WIN IT FOUNDA | $5,500 |
| ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $4,150 |
| FC America Youth Club | $1,589 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Together We Cope | $1,000 |
| US Hockey Foundation | $515 |
| SALUTE INC | $515 |
| ROANOKE PARK COUNSELING | $500 |
| VT Land Trust | $500 |
| Leukemia Lymphoma Society | $500 |
| Four Winds Nature Institute | $500 |
| CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITY | $414 |
| Plainfield Central High School | $314 |
| Joliet Catholic Academy | $208 |
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 (FY17–24, $29k) 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.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TWTOGETHER WE COPE5× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +5%
- IFInvest for Kids Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +39%
- NFNMDP FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- ARANN ROBERT H LURI CHILDRENS HOSPITAone grant, 2017 · $5k
- NVNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +193%
- SSSPL SPORTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +43%
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.
The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Financial Journalism. 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 64 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 BARRETT BEAR CALLAGHAN WIN IT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE COPE ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Run ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds SPL SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Park Counseling ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Lyme Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SALUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAINUP INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL JOURNALISM ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Kusinski Family 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.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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.