Texas · Private foundation
Kahng 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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Kahng Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 22 | $2.0M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.8M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $1.1M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $829k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $910k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $647k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Patricks Cathedral Landmark Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc | $963,736 | 3 | 0% |
| Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco | $800,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $755,000 | 3 | 72% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $629,705 | 5 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $391,135 | 8 | 0% |
| U S Committee for Human Rights in North Korea | $260,000 | 5 | 14% |
| The Asia Foundation | $225,074 | 5 | 0% |
| Australian-American Leadership Dialogue Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 51% |
| Gold House Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kahng Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Kahng Foundation
- How much does Kahng Foundation give?
- Kahng Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $2,171,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kahng Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Health (8%), Education (7%).
- Who are Kahng Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Patricks Cathedral Landmark Foundation Inc ($1.0M), The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc ($964k), Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco ($800k).
- Does Kahng Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kahng 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 Kahng Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Kahng Foundation based?
- Kahng Foundation is based in TX.
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