· Private foundation
Kahn Charitable 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
- $250k+1 grant · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $286,500 |
| JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON INC | $205,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $50,000 |
| BRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $39,000 |
| HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND | $35,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| ROSE KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $15,000 |
| ANGELL MEMORIAL ANIMAL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| KIDS COOKING FOR LIFE | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 4 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $284k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $293k · revenue +37%- CACONCORD ACADEMY6× · 2017–2023 · $187k · revenue +70%
- BCBoston Chamber Music Society Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $184k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NNORTEASTERNone grant, 2022 · $35k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDENone grant, 2022 · $30k
- AAASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -45%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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."
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 103 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Boston Chamber Music Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARVARD CRIMSON INC ↗
- Who funds HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASIA CATALYST INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of African American History Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW PRESS 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Ganek Family Foundation · Ag Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Tisbest Philanthropy · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kahn Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kahn Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc: 43% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
- Boston Chamber Music Society Inc: 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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