Maryland · Private foundation
Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $643k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $144k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $135k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $97k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $100k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $83k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $90k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $41k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adat Shalom Synagogue | $221,228 | 9 | n/a |
| Cure Multiple Myeloma Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 20% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $37,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Ort America Inc | $30,054 | 6 | 0% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $19,300 | 9 | 0% |
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts | $19,120 | 9 | 0% |
| Sanctum House Inc | $18,015 | 8 | 1% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Beth El | $13,952 | 6 | n/a |
| Cantor's Assembly | $12,450 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($211k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Jewish Federation of Detroit · The Kresge Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund
- How much does Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund give?
- Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund reported 7 grants totaling $24,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (9%).
- Who are Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Adat Shalom Synagogue ($221k), Cure Multiple Myeloma Corporation ($50k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($37k).
- Does Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation, Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust.
- Where is Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund based?
- Kahn Sovel Mertz Fund is based in MD.
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