California · Private foundation
Barbara and Fred Kort 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $1.9M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $825k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.4M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.4M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.2M | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of Bar-Ilan University | $1,448,000 | 6 | 6% |
| The Rose | $1,343,750 | 5 | 4% |
| The Virginia Holocaust Museum | $1,140,000 | 7 | 23% |
| Skookum Kids | $916,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Friends of Rachashei Lev Whispers of The Heart | $700,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Asian Youth Center | $500,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Girls Who Code Inc | $480,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Holocaust Museum La | $430,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Ne Eman Foundation USA | $350,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Chasday Naomi USA Friends | $350,000 | 2 | 89% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation
- How much does Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation give?
- Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $1,850,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of Bar-Ilan University ($1.4M), The Rose ($1.3M), The Virginia Holocaust Museum ($1.1M).
- Does Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barbara and Fred Kort 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 Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation based?
- Barbara and Fred Kort Foundation is based in CA.
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