FundersNew Jersey

Arnold & Irene Kocurek Fdn 1986 Tr

Pennington, NJ · EIN 74-6345100. Reported 156 grants totalling $824,500 to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$824,500granted, 2021-2024
43organizations funded
95%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,436,427assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Arnold & Irene Kocurek Fdn 1986 Tr did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
62 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
68 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Wildlife Rescue and RehabilitationKendalia, TX$70,000442024
Mrdc Unicorn Centers IncSan Antonio, TX$57,000442024
San Antonio Food BankSan Antonio, TX$42,000442024
Children's HospitalSan Antonio, TX$41,000442024
BoysvilleConverse, TX$34,000442024
Second Chance FarmGransbury, TX$33,000442024
San Antonio Pets Alive IncSan Antonio, TX$29,250442024
Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchHalletsville, TX$29,000442024
Austin Pets AliveAustin, TX$27,000332023
Mission Road MinistriesSan Antonio, TX$21,000442024
Winston SchoolSan Antonio, TX$21,000442024
Klrn Alamo Public Telecommuncations CounSan Antonio, TX$20,000442024
Helping Hand CrisisSpicewood, TX$17,250442024
Living Love Rescue ShelterMarble Falls, TX$17,250442024
Friench Simpson Memorial LibraryHallettsville, TX$17,000442024
Hallettsville Isd - LibraryHallettsville, TX$17,000442024
Hope Rescue CenterHearne, TX$17,000442024
Ronald Mcdonald HouseHouston, TX$17,000442024
ScholarshotDallas, TX$17,000442024
St Vincent De PaulCobleskill, NY$17,000442024
The Salvation ArmyAlexandria, VA$17,000442024
American Red CrossWashington, DC$16,500442024
Animal Defense LeagueSan Antonio, TX$16,500442024
Brighton CenterSan Antonio, TX$16,000442024
Meals on Wheels San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$16,000442024
SamministriesSan Antonio, TX$16,000442024
Sisters of Divine ProvidenceSan Antonio, TX$16,000442024
St Peter - St Joseph Children's HomeSan Antonio, TX$16,000442024
Mico Volunteer Fire DeptMico, TX$15,250332024
Humane Society of San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$14,000332023
St Louis Catholic ChurchCastroville, TX$13,000442024
The Volunteer Services CouncilSan Antonio, TX$11,000442024
Allied Womens Center of San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$10,500442024
Archdiocese of San AntonioSan Antonio, TX$10,000222022
Ezell Isd LibraryHallettsville, TX$10,000442024
Seton HomeSan Antonio, TX$10,000442024
St Louis Catholic SchoolCastroville, TX$9,000332023
Little Flower Catholic SchoolSan Antonio, TX$7,000442024
Sacred Heart Catholic SchoolHalletsville, TX$7,000332023
Archdiocese of San AntionioSan Antionio, TX$6,000222024
The Safe AllianceAustin, TX$5,000112021
St Francis ChapelMico, TX$3,000332023
St Jude Children's HospitalMemphis, TN$3,000112021

41 of 43 (95%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 95%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 53 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Animal Welfare
26 grants
Education
8 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202142$272,000$5,000
202240$240,000$5,000
202339$230,000$5,000
202435$82,500$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 94% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Texas
$771K
Virginia
$17K
New York
$17K
District of Columbia
$16K
Tennessee
$3K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Arnold & Irene Kocurek Fdn 1986 Tr's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1532, Pennington, NJ, 08534. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 74-6345100 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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