· Private foundation
The Theodore a Kienstra 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 $10k33 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICE | $50,000 |
| ST PATRICKS CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (NAPLES) | $20,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| HERREN PROJECT | $12,000 |
| LEE HOPP SAVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SSM HEALTH FOUNDATION - ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| ST CHARLES COUNTY FAIR | $10,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER | $10,000 |
| LYNNE F SOLON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| OBLATES OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES | $10,000 |
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, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 12 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- PPPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +187%
- QOQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $105k · revenue +23%
- SPST PATRICK CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +30%
Funded once
American Diabetes Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +30%- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
- OCONE CLASSROOMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +450%
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 mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
St. louis help is dedicated to providing community members with donated medical equipment, promoting independence, health and environmental responsibility.
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queen of Peace Center and the most unlike its peers is Clayco Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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. 48 of the 93 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 PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LEE HOPP SAVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LYNNE F SOLON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds HARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HILLJACK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SNOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds LETS START INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAPPENS INC ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Vincent E and Mary Judith Shaw Family Foundation · Tsf · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Ravarino Family 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 Theodore a Kienstra 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Theodore a Kienstra Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Theodore a Kienstra 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.