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The Lisa and Christopher Kysela Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$33kHousing & Shelter$3kHuman Services$3kEducation$2kAnimals$2kFood & Nutrition$1kHealth$1kPublic Benefit$100
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MAROONERS$10,000
DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$1,300
PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN$500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$500
THE VILLAGE PROJECT$500
THE SECOND ACT FOUNDATION$100
SHALOM & TRANQUILITY GARDEN$100
SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN$100
ZELIE'S HOME$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SISTERS HAVEN: $2k → 17%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $100 → 14%BLESSING HOUSE: $250 → 13%SISTERS HAVEN: $2k → 17%ROCK IT OUT: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of The Lisa and Christopher Kysela Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 70%.

The Lisa and Christopher Kysela Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42k · 6 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$42k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    Sisters Haven
    2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +71%
  • DC
    DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +451%
  • PC
    PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • RR
    ROCKY RIVER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • UO
    University of Daytongraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +27%
  • BH
    BLESSING HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $250 · revenue -32%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Rmh of Akroninc

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.

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2
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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3
West Side Catholic Center

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.

Human Services
4
Children's Hospital Medical Center

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,…

Health
5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Dayton

Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.

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6
Family Promise of Northwest Oh

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

Human Services
7
Family Promise of Greater Cleveland

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…

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8
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron

To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.

Health
9
Youth Homes

The mission of youth homes is to help every youth feel safe, have a sense of belonging, and find a place to call home.

Human Services
10
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

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…

Human Services
11
Adoption Network Cleveland

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.

Human Services
12
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School; 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.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MAROONERS: $33,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MAROONERSSisters Haven: $3,000 · Human ServicesSisters H…BLESSING HOUSE: $250 · Human ServicesBLESSING …ROCK IT OUT INC: $250 · Human ServicesROCK IT O…+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesROCKY RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,250 · OtherROCKY RIVER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $1,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $500 · OtherSECOND ACT FOUNDATION INC: $100 · OtherSHALOM & TRANQUILITY GARDEN: $100 · OtherPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,800 · AnimalsVILLAGE PROJECT: $1,000 · Food & NutritionUniversity of Dayton: $500 · EducationZELIE'S HOME: $100 · Housing & Shelter
Recreation & Sports$33,000Human Services$3,600Other$2,950Health$2,250Animals$1,800Food & Nutrition$1,000Education$500Housing & Shelter$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSisters Haven: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY RIVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGE PROJECT: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WEST FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSING HOUSE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK IT OUT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZELIE'S HOME: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Cleveland Clinic …Community West Founda…The Cleveland Clinic …The Cleveland Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Cleveland Clinic FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lisa and Christopher Kysela Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lisa and Christopher Kysela Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 17 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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