· Private foundation
Wayne and Nan Kocourek 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+8 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Big Sky Bravery | $5,493,500 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $2,206,638 |
| Myriad USA | $1,700,000 |
| V-FOUNDATION | $1,461,950 |
| Maui Health | $1,028,707 |
| THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $570,100 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $250,000 |
| TANAGER PLACE | $200,000 |
| EMERIL LAGRASSE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| WAYPOINT SERVICES | $200,000 |
| Fairfield Evergreen Cemetery Association | $200,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CEDAR RAPIDS | $200,000 |
| FAIRFIELD ARTS AND CONVENTION CENTER | $150,000 |
| Big Dog Ranch (Fund in Need) | $140,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
46 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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
- TVTHE V FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +111%
- BSBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $6.8M · revenue ×18 · 53% of their budget
- PCPAWS CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +163%
Funded once
- MFMERCY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +466%
- CAClayton and Kim Parks Family Fundone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- HAHunter and Andrea Parks Family Charitableone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.
To assure that dermatologists have access to the highest quality education, research and innovations in the field, and that patients and the public have access to the highest quality medical and surgical dermatologic care and to…
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Kahgahgee Historical Golf Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 90 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 THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR ↗
- Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield Arts & Convention Center Inc ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON CHILDRENS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Lakewood WWV Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds Elea Institute ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Wayne and Nan Kocourek 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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