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The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$108k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Religion$50kHealth$46kPublic Benefit$20kAnimals$10kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Peters Episcopal Church$50,0001n/a
Christus Children's Foundation$45,00010%
San Antonio Pets Alive Inc$10,00020%
San Antonio Development Fore Youth Inc$5,0001n/a
Thrivewell Cancer Foundation$1,00010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation

How much does The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation give?
The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $107,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Health (34%), Public Benefit (15%).
Who are The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: St Peters Episcopal Church ($50k), Christus Children's Foundation ($45k), San Antonio Pets Alive Inc ($10k).
Does The Melissa and John Kauth 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 Melissa and John Kauth Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation based?
The Melissa and John Kauth Foundation is based in TX.

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 7 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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