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The McCall Kulak Family Foundation at a glance

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The McCall Kulak 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.

$451k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of The McCall Kulak Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to New Venture Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
5
’18
1
’19
6
’20
1
’21
2
’22
3
’23
3
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.9MEducation$309kCommunity Improvement$150kHuman Services$10kInternational$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW VENTURE FUND$300,000
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION$100,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO$50,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $150k → 16%BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $100k → 17%NEW VENTURE FUND: $550k → 14%CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 21%EDADVANCE: $10k → 9%BLOSSOM HILL FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 9%NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $5k → 12%BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $3k → 17%NEW VENTURE FUND: $300k → 14%CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 21%BLOSSOM HILL FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 9%NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO: $50k → 11%ALL OUR KIN INC: $5k → 12%NEW VENTURE FUND: $300k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $5k → 12%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO: $20k → 11%ALL OUR KIN INC: $5k → 12%NEW VENTURE FUND: $150k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO: $20k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $5k → 12%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO: $20k → 11%CONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC - CO: $3k → 12%NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTO: $3k → 11%CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $10k → 11%CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $5k → 11%CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $5k → 11%CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $4k → 11%CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $600 → 11%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 75% of The McCall Kulak Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The McCall Kulak 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$342k · 7 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$342k
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    6× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +3%
  • BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
    2× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +38%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY
    5× · 2018–2023 · $25k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +44%
  • E
    EDADVANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +84%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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.

1
Center for American Progress

The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…

Civil Rights
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…

Education
4
Center for Arms Control and

A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.

International
5
Center for Community Change

The mission of community change is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.

Community Improvement
6
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
7
Capital Preparatory Schools Inc

To provide all students access to a high quality education by facilitating and supporting the creation, operation, and management of innovative and effective school models.

Education
8
Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress

Cspc is a non-partisan convener of leaders and experts from the government, private sector and academia that works to foster bipartisan solutions to our nation's most pressing challenges, often with a national security focus. cspc's…

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9
Center City Public Charter Schools

Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.

Education
10
The College School Association

To explore the world through authentic experiences, empowering students to engage deeply and be ready for what is next.

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11
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blossom Hill Foundation Inc. 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

12 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW VENTURE FUND: $1,900,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDNATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: $182,500 · EducationNATIONAL CENTE…BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $103,000 · EducationBANK STREET CO…+2 more: $20,000 · Education+2 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $24,600 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyEDADVANCE: $10,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC: $3,000 · OtherBlossom Hill Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,900,000Education$305,500Community Improvement$150,000Philanthropy$41,600Other$13,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,900,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR MONTESSORI IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: $182,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $103,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $24,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlossom Hill Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

Fairfield County's Co…William Caspar Graust…Hartford Foundation f…The Scripps Family Fu…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 McCall Kulak Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McCall Kulak Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Edadvance: 41% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 12 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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