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Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc

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.

$116k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,313
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 23
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$116k36%
FY202412$61k17%
FY202316$87k19%
FY202211$71k18%
FY202117$49k12%
FY202022$142k64%
FY201923$118kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$349kPhilanthropy$128kReligion$108kHealth$69kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$3kInternational$2kAnimals$700Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Syracuse University$205,62450%
The Birch Wathen Lenox School$50,71070%
Congregation Emanuel$50,5355n/a
Washington University$35,00050%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$19,50070%
Westhampton Synagogue Inc$16,0004n/a
American University$11,50020%
Apres Wine Party Inc$9,4754n/a
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$7,3131n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$5,50020%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSyracuse University: $205,624 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Birch Wathen Lenox School: $50,710 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlay for Pink Inc: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorselife Foundation Inc: $1,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrimary Stages Company Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Side Montessori: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Collaborative Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTri County Humane Society: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetActionplay Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Educational Achievement Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Hospital: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $100 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 30.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc

How much does Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc give?
Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc reported 14 grants totaling $116,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Philanthropy (19%), Religion (16%).
Who are Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Syracuse University ($206k), The Birch Wathen Lenox School ($51k), Congregation Emanuel ($51k).
Does Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc 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 Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc based?
Bernard R & Carol Kossar Foundationinc is based in NY.

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 53 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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