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Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$6.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$500k0%
FY20236$595k17%
FY20226$312k33%
FY202110$457k20%
FY202017$423k59%
FY201915$399k80%
FY20184$255k50%
FY20177$258kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.8MArts & Culture$734kHealth$334kPhilanthropy$303kEnvironment$20kCivil Rights$20kReligion$15kEducation$12kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington Institute for Near East Policy: $1,120,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWomen's International Zionist Organization: $700,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $63,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBallet Theatre Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Mind Institute Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBelev Echad Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc: $2,663 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShared Hope International: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Real Bark the Responsible Ethical Animal League: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Blerancourt Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRepair the World: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Point Jewish Chapel Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $100 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 23.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation

How much does Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation give?
Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (56%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (10%).
Who are Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington Institute for Near East Policy ($1.1M), Women's International Zionist Organization ($700k), American Friends of the Louvre Inc ($150k).
Does Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joan and Mike Kahn Family 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 Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation based?
Joan and Mike Kahn Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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