· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $16,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $11,500 |
| SAYRE SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| GREENWICH ACADEMY | $6,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $6,000 |
| GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW | $5,000 |
| LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| SAINT ANDREWS-SEWANEE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $3,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NYU ARTS & SCIENCES | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBowdoin College3× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +27%
- GAGREENWICH ACADEMY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%
- SSSAYRE SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PFPREP FOR PREPone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -22%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +6%- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George W and Lolita D Kern Educational Assistance Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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