· 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 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 $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 |
| COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA | $50,000 |
| NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $50,000 |
| AUSTRALIAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Kahng Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- UAUT Austin - Strauss CenterLBJ Schoolone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SGStanford Graduate School of Businessone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 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.
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kahng Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kahng Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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