· Private foundation
The Lisa and Christopher Kysela 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MAROONERS | $10,000 |
| DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,300 |
| THE VILLAGE PROJECT | $500 |
| URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $500 |
| PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $500 |
| ZELIE'S HOME | $100 |
| THE SECOND ACT FOUNDATION | $100 |
| SHALOM & TRANQUILITY GARDEN | $100 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $100 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of The Lisa and Christopher Kysela Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SHSisters Haven2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +71%
- DCDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +451%
- PCPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- RRROCKY RIVER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $1k
- UOUniversity of Daytongraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +27%
- BHBLESSING HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $250 · revenue -32%
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 organization provides lodging for children and their parentswhile they are receiving treatment at local hospitals. the organization gives the parents and other family members an affordable place to stay while being near their children.
The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.
The organization provides homeless prevention services, emergency shelter and basic needs, housing solutions and family and early childhood services to families in a housing crisis
To provide families facing the crisis of homelessness with a safe place designed to engage, inspire, and guide them toward a future where they feel empowered to control the course of their lives. family promise of greater cleveland…
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Adoption network cleveland's mission is to connect and empower individuals, organizations, and communities impacted by adoption, kinship, and foster care, and we provide a source of healing for those in need.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is The Marooners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 THE MAROONERS ↗
- Who funds Sisters Haven ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ROCKY RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ROCK IT OUT INC ↗
- Who funds ZELIE'S HOME ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
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: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The Cleveland Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lisa and Christopher Kysela 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.
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.