· Private foundation
Kahle Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY | $3,000 |
| OPERA IDAHO | $3,000 |
| EPISCOPAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST | $3,000 |
| UNBOUND | $2,880 |
| ST MICHAEL'S CATHEDRAL BOISE | $2,000 |
| TUNE IN TO NATURE ORG DBA BIRDNOTE | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| ANTHROPOS ARTS | $750 |
| RICE ANNUAL FUND - MS 83 | $750 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC | $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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
42 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SVSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC6× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +7%
- OIOPERA IDAHO INC5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +7%
- ALAUSTIN LYRIC OPERA2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PMPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k
- IGINDIANA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -4%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
See Disclosure Above.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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…
Education and Research
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 71 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 THE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERA IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Tune In To Nature org ↗
- Who funds Anthropos Arts ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC CO ↗
- Who funds INDIANA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS FOR IDAHO EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC ↗
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Moody Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Better Business Bureau · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bessemer Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kahle Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kahle Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- North Branch Nature Center Inc: 4% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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