· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $530k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $460,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| ASIAN ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM | $80,000 |
| AUSTRALIAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC | $50,000 |
| COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA | $50,000 |
| BLANTON MUSEUM AT UT AUSTIN | $25,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS AT NYU | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $25,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY - CANTOR ARTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Kahng Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $964k · revenue +18%
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +202% · 72% of their budget
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART8× · 2018–2025 · $391k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $350k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $100k
WNETone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
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 performance art museum (pam) is the first u.s. institution exclusively dedicated to the presentation and preservation of live art. our mission is to facilitate the powerful impact of live experiences that can profoundly transform our…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
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).
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ps 1 Contemporary Art Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Netkal Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds U S COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN LYRIC OPERA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds American-Australian Education Leadership Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kahng Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.