Massachusetts · Private foundation
Esther B Kahn Charitable 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.
- $185k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 25
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 12 | $185k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $166k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $240k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $210k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $200k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing Families Inc | $104,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women's Lunch Place Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Learning Ally Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Perkins School for the Blind | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Huntington Theatre Co Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peer Health Exchange Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boothbay Sea and Science Center | $48,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Partners for Youth With Disabilities Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Esther B Kahn Charitable 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation
- How much does Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation give?
- Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $185,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Housing Families Inc ($104k), Women's Lunch Place Inc ($100k), Cradles to Crayons Inc ($100k).
- Does Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Esther B Kahn 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 Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation based?
- Esther B Kahn Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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