· Private foundation
Charles J & Elizabeth R Koch 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $43,300 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $25,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE PLAY GROUP | $15,000 |
| MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION | $11,950 |
| PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FLAGLER MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH | $3,500 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF DARIEN | $1,000 |
| DARIEN LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| LEDGE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $820k · revenue +50%- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $308k · revenue +539%
- TMThe Musical Arts Association8× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- POPATRONS OF THE ARTS VATICAN MUSEUMSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- KSKENT SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +8%
- MOMetropolitan Operaone grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds SMILES WITH STYLE INC ↗
- Who funds URSULINE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS MORE PLAY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds REGINA HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Peace ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds DARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
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: The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles J & Elizabeth R Koch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles J & Elizabeth R Koch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
- Mather Homestead Foundation: 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Chatham Historical Society Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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