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George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund

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.

$86k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$74k9%
FY202411$74k36%
FY202310$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$212k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
KY
VA
TN

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bowdoin College$46,00030%
Collegiate School Inc$45,00030%
Greenwich Academy Inc$18,00030%
Sayre School$14,00030%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$9,10020%
Lindsey Wilson University Inc$9,00030%
The Chapin School Ltd$5,25020%
Prep for Prep$5,00010%
Trustees of Boston University$3,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowdoin College: $46,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCollegiate School Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Academy Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSayre School: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $9,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLindsey Wilson University Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chapin School Ltd: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrep for Prep: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 9.

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About George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund

How much does George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund give?
George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund reported 12 grants totaling $85,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Bowdoin College ($46k), Collegiate School Inc ($45k), Greenwich Academy Inc ($18k).
Does George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund 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.
Where is George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund based?
George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund is based in KY.

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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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