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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.

$435k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$372kHousing & Shelter$241kEducation$212kReligion$198kHuman Services$171kPhilanthropy$62kEmployment$50kRecreation & Sports$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICE$50,000
ST PATRICKS CENTER$25,000
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$20,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (NAPLES)$20,000
HERREN PROJECT$12,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,000
COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER$10,000
ST CHARLES COUNTY FAIR$10,000
LYNNE F SOLON FOUNDATION$10,000
SSM HEALTH FOUNDATION - ST LOUIS$10,000
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
OBLATES OF ST FRANCIS DE SALES$10,000
LEE HOPP SAVE FOUNDATION$10,000
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH$10,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (NAPLES): $20k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (NAPLES): $5k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (NAPLES): $5k → 10%YOUTH IN NEED: $1k → 5%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $1k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FIRST STEP BACK HOME INC: $1k → 5%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
MO
DE
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 57 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
24

Total granted

$1.9M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+4%

Still filing today

47%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PP
    PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +187%
  • QO
    QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $105k · revenue +23%
  • SP
    ST PATRICK CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • American Diabetes Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • RP
    ROLLA PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +87%
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
Saint Louis Counseling Inc

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…

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2
Good Shepherd Children & Family Services

Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.

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3
Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service

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…

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4
St Patrick Partnership Center

To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

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5
St Luke's Des Peres Episcopal- Presbyterian Hospital

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
6
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
7
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
8
Living Community of St Joseph

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…

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9
Ssm Health Care St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
10
St Louis Health Equipment Lending Program Inc

St. louis help is dedicated to providing community members with donated medical equipment, promoting independence, health and environmental responsibility.

Health
11
St Louis Life

To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.

Housing & Shelter
12
St Paul Place Specialists Inc

To provide specialty physician services to patients of mercy medical center.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queen of Peace Center; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 93 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $135,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PATRICK CENTER: $100,100 · OtherST PATRICK CENTERCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER: $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CENTER+59 more: $699,000 · Other+59 moreQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $105,000 · HealthQUEEN OF P…UNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · HealthUNITED SER…THE HERREN PROJECT: $12,000 · HealthTHE HERREN…HILLJACK HOUSE INC: $11,500 · HealthHILLJACK H…HOPE HAPPENS INC: $10,000 · HealthHOPE HAPPE…American Diabetes Association: $10,000 · HealthAmerican D…CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $8,500 · Health+4 more: $14,830 · Health+4 morePETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $125,000 · Housing & ShelterINCARNATE WORD ACADEMY: $57,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE NEXT STEP: $5,000 · EducationONE CLASSROOM: $5,000 · EducationAFRICA YOUTH-NOW FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationLYNNE F SOLON FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SNOW FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion Foundation: $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOME BUILDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,700 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC: $40,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,534,100Health$186,830Housing & Shelter$125,000Education$84,000Philanthropy$74,700Human Services$40,500Community Improvement$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $105,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $100,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINCARNATE WORD ACADEMY: $57,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLEE HOPP SAVE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLYNNE F SOLON FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOUR LITTLE HAVEN: $30,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERREN PROJECT: $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHILLJACK HOUSE INC: $11,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetST CHARLES COUNTY FAIR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SNOW FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSSM HEALTH FOUNDATION - ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HAPPENS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $9,150 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROLLA PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP: $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetONE CLASSROOM: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $4,830 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME BUILDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,700 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGWENDOLYN'S GIFTS: $3,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE COUNTY RIGHT TO LIFE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Lab rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST STEP BACK HOME INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetClayco Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH & ELSIE MCBRIDE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • 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 LYNNE F SOLON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES ↗
  • Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HILLJACK HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LETS START INC ↗
  • Who funds ST CHARLES COUNTY FAIR ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE SNOW FOUNDATION ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Moneta Group Charitab…Commerce Bancshares F…World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…Roman Catholic Founda…Vincent E and Mary Ju…TsfYouthbridge Community…Edward Jones Foundati…St Louis Community Fo…Ravarino Family Found…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO32.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Theodore a Kienstra Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Theodore a Kienstra Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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.

    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 93 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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