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David H Koch Charitable Foundation

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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations David H Koch Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealth
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
FY2024still arriving2$2.1M50%
FY20232$600k50%
FY20222$3.1M50%
FY20201$1.0M100%
FY201710$18Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$15MScience & Tech$6.3MEducation$3.6MHealth$600kCivil Rights$400kPublic Benefit$150kInternational$101kRecreation & Sports$100k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

David H Koch Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $5,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDuke University: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $400,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAfrican Ceremonies Inc: $295,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetBill of Rights Institute: $200,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetDMF Internationl Inc: $100,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 12.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to David H Koch Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David H Koch Charitable Foundation 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.

About David H Koch Charitable Foundation

How much does David H Koch Charitable Foundation give?
David H Koch Charitable Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does David H Koch Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Science & Tech (24%), Education (14%).
Who are David H Koch Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City Center of Music and Drama INC ($15M), Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ($5.0M), Duke University ($1.2M).
Does David H Koch Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David H Koch Charitable 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 David H Koch Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is David H Koch Charitable Foundation based?
David H Koch Charitable Foundation is based in KS.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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