Minnesota · Private foundation
Kairos Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $13k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $125
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,944
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $154k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Kairos Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $13k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $10k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $21k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $17k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $10k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $18k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $14k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common Ground Meditation Center | $4,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Arizona Center for Empowerment | $3,650 | 1 | 0% |
| Tucson Community Meditation Center Inc | $2,790 | 3 | n/a |
| The Voter Participation Center | $2,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $1,500 | 7 | 0% |
| All Square | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Living Hope Ministries | $1,200 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Antioch Community Church | $900 | 1 | n/a |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $800 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kairos Foundation 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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kairos Foundation
- How much does Kairos Foundation give?
- Kairos Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $12,636 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kairos Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Philanthropy (9%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Kairos Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Common Ground Meditation Center ($5k), Arizona Center for Empowerment ($4k), Tucson Community Meditation Center Inc ($3k).
- Does Kairos Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kairos 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 Kairos Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Kairos Foundation based?
- Kairos Foundation is based in MN.
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