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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.

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$515
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,530
Organizations funded a year
8 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$553k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Kusinski Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$23k63%
FY20239$20k33%
FY20228$30k50%
FY202115$40k53%
FY202011$33k45%
FY201913$57k31%
FY201814$39k43%
FY201722$39kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$182kHuman Services$37kHealth$27kYouth Development$8kCommunity Improvement$7kRecreation & Sports$5kAnimals$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kusinski Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarrett Bear Callaghan Win It Foundation: $17,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetTogether We Cope: $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInvest for Kids Inc: $12,592 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNmdp Foundation: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Run: $4,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Vocations Racehorse Adoption: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpl Sports Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoanoke Park Counseling: $2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTwin Cities Lyme Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,465 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSalute Inc: $1,288 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrainup Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $521 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Hockey Foundation: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFour Winds Nature Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Financial Journalism: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCulinary Care: $256 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mn Minnesotanorth Dakotasouth Dakota: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrankfort School District 157-C Foundation: $104 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Zoological Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

AbbVie FoundationIL12.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Kusinski Family Foundation

How much does The Kusinski Family Foundation give?
The Kusinski Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $22,839 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Kusinski Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (65%), Human Services (13%), Health (10%).
Who are The Kusinski Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Barrett Bear Callaghan Win It Foundation ($18k), Together We Cope ($16k), Invest for Kids Inc ($13k).
Does The Kusinski Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kusinski Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Kusinski Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is The Kusinski Family Foundation based?
The Kusinski Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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