· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| SALUTE INC | $515 |
| US Hockey Foundation | $515 |
| Four Winds Nature Institute | $500 |
| Leukemia Lymphoma Society | $500 |
| VT Land Trust | $500 |
| ROANOKE PARK COUNSELING | $500 |
| CHICAGO WHITE SOX CHARITY | $414 |
| Plainfield Central High School | $314 |
| Joliet Catholic Academy | $208 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +92%
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 64 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL JOURNALISM ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kusinski Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kusinski Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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