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John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,400,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$8.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationOther
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$1.4M0%
FY20233$55k67%
FY20223$915k33%
FY20217$81k43%
FY20205$265k0%
FY20196$105k83%
FY20189$272k33%
FY20178$965kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$510kHealth$103kPhilanthropy$75kReligion$15kEnvironment$4kOther$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 12 grantees
All grantees of John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metropolitan Museum of Art$3,075,00040%
Manhattan Youth Ballet Inc$120,00033%
United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc$75,00030%
Professional Childrens School Inc$65,00030%
The Performance Zone Inc$35,00020%
School of American Ballet Inc$30,00020%
Remi Arts Inc$25,000156%
Hispanic Society of America$20,00020%
Diversity of Dance Inc$5,00011%
Madoo Conservancy Inc$4,00011%
Childrens Music Fund$2,50011%
The Art Institute of Chicago$1,00010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($640k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $3,075,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetManhattan Youth Ballet Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Greater Triangle Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetProfessional Childrens School Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Performance Zone Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSchool of American Ballet Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRemi Arts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetHispanic Society of America: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDiversity of Dance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMadoo Conservancy Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildrens Music Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $1,000 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 12.

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 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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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About John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc

How much does John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc give?
John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $1,440,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (12%), Health (2%).
Who are John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($3.1M), Manhattan Youth Ballet Inc ($120k), United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc ($75k).
Does John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc 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 John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc based?
John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 23 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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