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John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,400,000
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $3k) 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.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S MUSIC FUND: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 13 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$4.0M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+10%

Still filing today

54%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +58%
  • MY
    MANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $120k · revenue +41%
  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • RA
    REMI ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -100% · 56% of their budget
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SAG HA
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • DO
    DIVERSITY OF DANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +33%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
Ballet Metropolitan Inc

Balletmet will celebrate dance by engaging the community through quality performances, instruction, education programs, and creation of new work.

Arts & Culture
3
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
4
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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5
California Institute of the Arts

Calarts is a multidisciplinary community of artists. our ongoing educational endeavor is grounded in openness, experimentation, critical engagement, and creative freedom. through artistic practice, we transform ourselves, each other, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
7
Menlowe Ballet

Menlowe ballet performs works that impact audiences through clean, fresh, and innovative choreography ranging from cultural to contemporary works. it offers a professional performing opportunity to elite students from the award winning,…

Arts & Culture
8
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
10
World Music Institute Inc

World music institute is committed to presenting the best in traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world to enrich lives through the arts, promote awareness and appreciation of the worlds rich cultural traditions and…

Arts & Culture
11
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance

Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc

Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3,075,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTMANHATTAN YOUTH BALLET INC: $120,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $120,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTER COLLEGE FUND: $400,000 · OtherHUNTER COLLEGE FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $70,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOC…THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY FUND: $27,000 · OtherREMI ARTS INC: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $37,500 · Other+5 moreUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $1,000 · EducationMADOO CONSERVANCY INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentCHILDRENS MUSIC FUND: $2,500 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$3,315,000Other$699,500Philanthropy$75,000Education$8,500Environment$4,000Human Services$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Evelyn Kossak Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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