· Private foundation
Gerald J Kaufman Jr 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UH JERRY KAUFMAN GLIOBLASTOMA FUND | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR RIGHTS OF ABUSE CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| STEP DENVER | $10,000 |
| COLORADO OPEN LANDS | $8,000 |
| THE PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $6,000 |
| FAMILIES FLOURISH | $5,000 |
| CCF DR PEEREBOOM RES FND | $5,000 |
| IDEASTREAM PUBLIC MEDIA | $5,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SDStep Denver9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +171%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +57%
- CICATO INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Rights of Abused Childrenone grant, 2022 · $20k
- GFGLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +358%
- PAPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +209%
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 open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Isd-us is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to defending democracy and individual rights against threats to public safety and national security. isd-us is at the forefront of analyzing and innovating solutions…
The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…
This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 20 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 Step Denver ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE RIGHTS OF ABUSED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FLOURISH INC ↗
- Who funds GLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
- Who funds PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
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: Adolph Coors Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerald J Kaufman Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald J Kaufman Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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