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Kanaan Family 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
96% of Kanaan Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to King Baudouin Foundation Us Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Kanaan Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $21k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2018
- Under $10k14 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SABEEL-NORTH AMERICA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CAIR MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| US CAMPAIGN FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS | $1,000 |
| LEMKIN HOUSE | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN | $500 |
| AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE | $500 |
| HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC | $500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $500 |
| FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION | $500 |
| CONGREGATION OF ST JOSEPH | $500 |
| IF AMERICANS KNEW | $500 |
| KAIROS WEST MICHIGAN | $500 |
| AMERICANS FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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 82% of Kanaan Family 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 +67% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2018, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UPUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +400%
- AAAMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +233%
- IAIF AMERICANS KNEW2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- POPILGRIMS OF IBILLINgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +61%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- UCUS CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
Educate elected officials, policy-makers, and voters and advocate in congress and the executive branch for us policies that advance palestinian right and freedom.
Educate the public on key policy issues towaeds the middle east and the peace proces through electronic media and outreach.
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
Human Rights Project
The middle east policy council is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan eductional organization. founded in 1981, the mission of the council is to foster public discussion of the political, economic, cultural and security issues that…
Providing balanced and correct press coverage on the Middle East conflict by providing trips to the Middle East to the press corps and also having them meet with Military and Political experts from the region
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
ACMER is committed to promoting social welfare and improving human rights in the Middle East. ACMER aims to center American values of human rights and democracy in US Middle East foreign policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and the most unlike its peers is Hospital Hospitality House Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 33 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 MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC ↗
- Who funds PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds CAIR Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds IF AMERICANS KNEW ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FUND FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Education For Just Peace in Middle East ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE ↗
- Who funds Americans for Middle East Understanding Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST F ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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: Drs Subhi & Maysoon Ali Foundation Inc · Isa S & Elizabeth Canavati Family Foundation · Tarbell Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kanaan Family 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.
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.