Louisiana · Private foundation
Betty and Ira Kohn 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.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 25 | $100k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $77k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $20k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $32k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $37k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $44k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $537k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Touro Synagogue | $585,945 | 9 | n/a |
| Jewish Children's Regional Service | $132,650 | 9 | 1% |
| Park Synagogue | $33,878 | 8 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Yeshurun | $27,011 | 9 | n/a |
| National Council of Jewish Women Greater New Orleans Section Inc | $16,872 | 9 | 2% |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | $14,770 | 7 | 0% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater New Orleans Inc | $8,600 | 7 | 0% |
| New Orleans Ballet Association | $6,400 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Goldring Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Cahn Family Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Van Der Linden Family Foundation · Rittenberg Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Sac Foundation · Robert B and Shirley K Haspel Endowment Fund · Ferber Family of Houma Foundation
How this is measured
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About Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation
- How much does Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation give?
- Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $115,549 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Touro Synagogue ($586k), Jewish Children's Regional Service ($133k), Park Synagogue ($34k).
- Does Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Betty and Ira Kohn 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 Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Goldring Family Foundation, The Usdin-Weil Foundation, Cahn Family Foundation.
- Where is Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation based?
- Betty and Ira Kohn Foundation is based in LA.
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