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David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
45
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$263k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.5MHealth$1.3MPhilanthropy$478kReligion$390kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kRecreation & Sports$55kAnimals$36kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2023 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $1,052,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,082,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k36 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $403k
  • $250k+2 grants · $514k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION$262,500
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$251,000
TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$152,500
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$100,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION$20,150
WINGS FOR LIFE USA FOUNDATION, INC$10,000
GA ATHLETIC COACHES ASSOCIATION$10,000
ATHENS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND$8,500
AGAPE$5,500
GICIA$5,000
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA$5,000
ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER$5,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CA
VA
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 52 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
45

Total granted

$5.4M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
HealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +112%
  • TL
    THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +60%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $310k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • GW
    GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -3%
  • F
    FCA
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TT
    TUNNEL TO TOWERS DOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
2
The Grady Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the grady health foundation is to grow both philanthropic support and broad-based understanding of the critical role that grady health system plays in the metro atlanta region. our focus is to ensure grady health system has…

Philanthropy
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
5
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
6
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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7
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
8
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Navicent Health Inc

Navicent health's mission is to elevate health and well-being through compassionate care for all. our values are integrity, respect, ownership, and caring. navicent health, inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to serve…

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
Augusta Health Care Inc

The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 112 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
51/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $1,566,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $1,392,500 · EducationTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INCCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $240,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+9 more: $133,125 · EducationCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $317,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE …TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $309,100 · OtherTRINITY PRESBYTERIAN C…CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOU…GA Athletic Coaches Association: $50,000 · OtherAGAPE: $48,000 · Other+64 more: $328,125 · Other+64 moreSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $557,500 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENT…THE KIRBY SMART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KIRBY SMA…+6 more: $30,725 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER INC: $310,050 · Health+16 more: $56,780 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $320,000 · Community ImprovementATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $85,150 · Crime & LegalATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureFernbank Inc: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$3,331,625Other$1,202,725Philanthropy$723,225Health$366,830Community Improvement$320,000Crime & Legal$85,150Arts & Culture$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $1,566,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC: $1,392,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $557,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $320,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $310,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KIRBY SMART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $85,150 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $81,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATHENS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $12,055 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY VISION FOR REFUGEES INC: $11,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAthens Area Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund: $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $8,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $6,775 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA AQUARIUM INC & SUBSIDIARY: $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA MILLION MATTERS INC: $5,225 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWings for Life USA - Spinal Cord Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGILGAL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHERS ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPOWHATAN SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOMMY LANIER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE KIRBY SMART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF ATHENS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MY VISION FOR REFUGEES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 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.

The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Community Foundation …The Scott Hudgens Fam…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainTr Uw Charles I BrananIra C Herbert Family …Luci and Stan Sunshin…The Zeist Foundation …The Billi Marcus Foun…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA33.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Scott Hudgens Family Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Ira C Herbert Family Foundation Inc · Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation · The Zeist Foundation Inc · The Billi Marcus Foundation Inc · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to David & Jennifer Kahn Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 112 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.0M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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