How much does David Kahan Family Foundation give?

David Kahan Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $76,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 154 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does David Kahan Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Education (17%), International (17%).

Who are David Kahan Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva ($60k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($39k), Israel Magen Fund Inc ($15k).

Does David Kahan Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does David Kahan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is David Kahan Family Foundation based?

David Kahan Family Foundation is based in MI.

David Kahan Family Foundation

David Kahan Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

David Kahan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$129kEducation$81kInternational$79kReligion$43kPhilanthropy$30kArts & Culture$22kHuman Services$19kCivil Rights$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k40 grants · $62k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$3k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FARBER HEBREW DAY SCHOOL	$15,000
BBYO	$6,250
ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN	$6,000
ZAKA SEARCH ANDRESCUE	$5,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$5,000
ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER	$4,400
Individual grant recipient	$3,600
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE	$3,000
CONGREGATION BETH AHM	$2,825
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION	$2,500
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION	$2,500
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND	$2,000
FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY	$1,800
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC	$1,800
Individual grant recipient	$1,800

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$450k · 136 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

136 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 98 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136

Total granted

$450k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+7%

Still filing today

60%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
4× · 2022–2025 · $39k · revenue +110%
IM
Israel Magen Fund Inc
4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +102%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
4× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +86%

Funded once

AJ
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
one grant, 2021 · $3k
CL
CHABAD LUBAVITCH
one grant, 2021 · $500
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $500

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.

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Sherit Isroel

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University of Judaism Foundation

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Moskowitz Prize for Zionism Inc

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The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International

The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture

Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights

Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; 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

102 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. 102 of the 182 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

102/102

Grantees still filing

67/102

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$304,303International$78,550Arts & Culture$22,600Human Services$19,500Education$18,200Civil Rights$11,450Religion$10,605

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.

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.

Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation CorporationMI28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Grosfeld Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Pappas Foundation Inc · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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