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Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation at a glance

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Wayne and Nan Kocourek 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.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$16MHuman Services$7.8MPublic Benefit$7.8MAnimals$6.2MPhilanthropy$3.9MInternational$3.7MYouth Development$3.6MArts & Culture$2.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+9 grants · $14M
$100,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$115M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Big Sky Bravery$5,047,507
PAWS CHICAGO$2,552,600
Auction NAPA Valley$1,229,152
Myriad USA Foundation$1,200,000
V-FOUNDATION$1,100,000
Maui Health Foundation$1,003,600
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
Boys & Girls Club of Chicago$375,000
EMERIL LAGRASSE FOUNDATION$266,900
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CEDAR RAPIDS$205,000
TANAGER PLACE$200,000
WAYPOINT SERVICES$200,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
MAUI ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER$125,000
Valley of the King Sanctuary & Retreat$110,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ATLANTA MISSION: $100k → 13%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $750k → 12%ATLANTA MISSION: $100k → 13%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%ATLANTA MISSION: $50k → 13%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%ATLANTA MISSION: $40k → 13%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%ATLANTA MISSION: $25k → 13%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $250k → 12%THE CHOSEN AND DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $100k → 12%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $250k → 9%The Chicago Lighthouse: $50k → 14%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $200k → 9%The Chicago Lighthouse: $25k → 14%The Chicago Lighthouse: $6k → 14%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $200k → 9%The Chicago Lighthouse: $5k → 14%The Chicago Lighthouse: $3k → 14%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $200k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $200k → 9%JOURNEYCARE: $110k → 14%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $200k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $200k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $100k → 9%WAYPOINT SERVICES: $100k → 9%JOURNEYCARE: $75k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $50k → 14%JOURNEYCARE: $50k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 14%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

ID
MT
IL
WI
NY
IA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 49 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +67% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
40

Total granted

$56M
$6.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+67%

Still filing today

63%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & 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

  • BS
    BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $12M · revenue ×18 · 53% of their budget
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +111%
  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.1M · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +466%
  • TM
    The McBride Family Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • HA
    Hunter and Andrea Parks Family Charitable
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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
American Gas Association

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…

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2
Associated Universities Inc

Associated universities inc (aui) collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. we cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public.

Science & Tech
3
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
4
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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5
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
6
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
7
American Academy of Dermatology Inc

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…

Health
8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
10
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
11
The Miami Foundation Inc

The miami foundation is building a greater miami where everyone can thrive. since 1967, the foundation has invested over $905m to strengthen our community in partnership with more than 1,000 fundholders and over 60,000 donors. by…

Philanthropy
12
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 99 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE V FOUNDATION: $11,811,886 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONTANAGER PLACE: $1,800,000 · HealthTANAGER PLACEAuction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley: $1,229,152 · HealthAuction Napa Valley Collect…MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,006,100 · HealthMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATIONSt Luke's Health Care Foundation: $700,000 · Health+6 more: $235,274 · HealthMAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,310,950 · OtherMAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTERMaui Health: $1,230,682 · OtherMaui HealthMyriad USA Foundation: $1,200,000 · OtherMyriad USA FoundationThe McBride Family Fund: $1,000,000 · OtherHunter and Andrea Parks Family Charitable: $1,000,000 · OtherTrevor and Jocelyn Parks Philanthropy: $1,000,000 · OtherClayton and Kim Parks Family Fund: $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $819,664 · OtherMYRIAD USA INC: $3,060,000 · OtherMYRIAD USA INCNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $1,402,790 · OtherNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATIO…+53 more: $5,489,688 · Other+53 moreBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $11,829,761 · Public BenefitBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUN…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $795,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitPAWS CHICAGO: $8,075,748 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGO+4 more: $143,500 · AnimalsTHE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES: $1,650,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $315,000 · Human ServicesElea Institute: $284,500 · Human Services+2 more: $93,500 · Human ServicesMERCY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $1,499,155 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $491,032 · PhilanthropyBARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC: $265,400 · Philanthropy+2 more: $65,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR: $2,305,000 · Recreation & SportsFairfield Arts & Convention Center Inc: $760,000 · Recreation & SportsLAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC: $220,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$16,782,412Other$19,513,774Public Benefit$12,634,761Animals$8,219,248Human Services$4,943,000Philanthropy$3,820,587Recreation & Sports$3,385,000

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 budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $11,829,761 over 7y, 53% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $11,811,886 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $8,075,748 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $3,060,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 over 9y, 46% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CORRIDOR: $2,305,000 over 9y, 40% of budgetTANAGER PLACE: $1,800,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $1,650,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $1,499,155 over 7y, 19% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $1,402,790 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,006,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $795,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFairfield Arts & Convention Center Inc: $760,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetSt Luke's Health Care Foundation: $700,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBARRINGTON CHILDRENS CHARITIES: $550,000 over 9y, 35% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $491,032 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $459,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $375,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $315,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLakewood WWV Camp Inc: $288,500 over 2y, 29% of budgetElea Institute: $284,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARRINGTON AREA COMM FOUNDATION INC: $265,400 over 3y, 18% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC: $220,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetFAIRFIELD EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $220,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetVALLEY OF THE KINGS SANCTUARY AND RETREAT: $130,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $100,540 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKAHGAHGEE HISTORICAL GOLF FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $88,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM GUY FORBECK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $63,734 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $57,520 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHUI NO'EAU: $44,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMAUI YOUTH RANCH: $35,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetEAGLE RIVER RECREATION ASSOC INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAKU BALDWIN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPODER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBRIAN TERRY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOOK TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLast Chance for Animals: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Iowa Arts Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE V 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 WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley ↗
  • Who funds MAUI HEALTH 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
  • 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 LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…John P & Lawrence J G…The Hall-Perrine Foun…United Fire Group Fou…Hawkeye Area Communit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…The Ayco Charitable F…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wayne and Nan Kocourek 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 99 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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