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Wynn and Ginnette Kearney 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.

$60k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$26,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$822k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$60k36%
FY20235$7k40%
FY202218$47k28%
FY20213$25k33%
FY202014$21k43%
FY201911$52k64%
FY201823$24k48%
FY201722$69kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$87kEducation$81kHuman Services$63kRecreation & Sports$30kHealth$14kScience & Tech$11kPhilanthropy$11kYouth Development$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
OK
LA
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City Science Inc$11,12222%
Northwestern University$9,54540%
Augsburg University$9,00040%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Rochester Inc$5,00010%
Fastbreak Foundation$5,00011%
Mankato Community Education and Rec$4,0162n/a
Emergency Community Help Organization Inc$2,50050%
Loyola Catholic Schools$1,5003n/a
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$1,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$90040%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($251k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCity Science Inc: $11,122 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNorthwestern University: $9,545 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAugsburg University: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Rochester Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFastbreak Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEmergency Community Help Organization Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Hope Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Earth County Historical Society: $510 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPartners for Affordable Housing: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Land Water Access Association: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Montana Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wrestling Hall of Fame: $355 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Valley Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMankato Symphony Orchestra Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Volunteers Overseas Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Earth: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Public Radio American Public Media: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $32 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Valley News FoundationMN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Valley News Foundation · Mankato Area Foundation · Glen a Taylor Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · L & N Andreas Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Taylor Foundation · The Thom Family Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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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About Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation

How much does Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation give?
Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $60,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (28%), Education (26%), Human Services (20%).
Who are Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City Science Inc ($11k), Northwestern University ($10k), Augsburg University ($9k).
Does Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wynn and Ginnette Kearney 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 Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Valley News Foundation, Mankato Area Foundation, Glen a Taylor Foundation.
Where is Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation based?
Wynn and Ginnette Kearney Foundation is based in MN.

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 59 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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