· Private foundation
Kalhan 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Kalhan Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Kalhan Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $2k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Save the Children | $960 |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank | $500 |
| Dining for Women | $240 |
| Human Service Trust Zambia | $200 |
| Southern Poverty Law center | $100 |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $90 |
| National Park Cons Association | $65 |
| WCPN | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 20% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Save The Children Federation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +14%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +13%- TWTOGETHER WOMEN RISE6× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +28%
Funded once
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $65 · revenue +29%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50
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.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WOMEN RISE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kalhan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kalhan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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