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Kahn Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$766k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
6
Organizations funded FY2019
33%
First-time grantees FY2019
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89% of Kahn Family Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
4
’18
6
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$678,012
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 33% of the organizations Kahn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
InternationalHuman ServicesHealth
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
FY20196$88k33%
FY20184$70k25%
FY20173$43kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$678kInternational$118kCivil Rights$45kHealth$38k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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.

McNabb FoundationDE13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McNabb Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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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How do I get to Kahn Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kahn Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kahn Family Foundation

How much does Kahn Family Foundation give?
Kahn Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $765,540 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Kahn Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (77%), International (13%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are Kahn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Alliance for Middle East Peace Inc ($68k), Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra ($50k), The Jewish Community Free Clinic ($38k).
Does Kahn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kahn Family Foundation 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 Kahn Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include McNabb Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Kahn Family Foundation based?
Kahn Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 7 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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