· Private foundation
Judy and Nick Kauser 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $3,250 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $3,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $3,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $3,000 |
| KCTS TELEVISION | $2,120 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR INC | $2,050 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE | $2,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $1,600 |
| SEATTLE'S UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $1,501 |
| BREAD OF LIFE HOME & MISSIONS INC | $1,500 |
| CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC | $1,400 |
| NPH USA | $1,396 |
| CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL | $1,258 |
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 (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +1%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF5× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +46%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- OHOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OFone grant, 2023 · $2k
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 boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 66 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 COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Type of Wood Charities ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Judy and Nick Kauser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judy and Nick Kauser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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