· Private foundation
Henry B and Jessie W Keiser 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 $10k15 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MACARTHUR BEACH STATE PARK INC | $10,000 |
| EPSILON EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $10,000 |
| WEEKS BRICK HOUSE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| SCOTLAND AME ZION CHURCH | $6,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SMTD FUND | $3,750 |
| MARTHA COOK BUILDING ANNUAL FUND | $3,000 |
| MARTHA COOK BUILDING CAPITAL FUND | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LAKESHORE LEGAL AID | $2,500 |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +202%
- NGNational Gallery of Art8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +57%
- RHROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SMST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MCMARTHA COOK HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 56 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MACARTHUR BEACH STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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: Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomer · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry B and Jessie W Keiser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry B and Jessie W Keiser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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