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Kanaan Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$21k
Granted FY2018
15
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

16
’17
12
’18
1
’19
2
’20
1
’21
0
’22
4
’23
6
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$1.4MReligion$13kCivil Rights$8kHealth$3kHuman Services$2kPublic Benefit$2kSocial Science$1kEducation$500Other$0
02FY2018 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k14 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KAIROS WEST MICHIGAN$500
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN$500
AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE$500
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$500
HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC$500
CONGREGATION OF ST JOSEPH$500
IF AMERICANS KNEW$500
FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION$500
AMERICANS FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $500 → 22%IF AMERICANS KNEW: $500 → 12%AMERICANS FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING: $300 → 17%THE JERUSELEM FUND: $1k → 14%CAIR MICHIGAN: $1k → 8%KAIROS WEST MICHIGAN: $500 → 10%KALAMAZOO ISLAMIC CENTER: $2k → 12%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN: $500 → 21%PILGRIMS OF IBILLIN: $3k → 10%KAIROS USA: $1k → 11%HOSPITED HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $500 → 14%THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA: $1k → 14%COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%JUST WORLD EDUCATIONAL: $300 → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $500 → 22%IF AMERICANS KNEW: $500 → 12%AMERICANS FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING: $240 → 17%US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION: $1k → 14%KAIROS WEST MICHIGAN: $500 → 10%KALAMAZOO ISLAMIC CENTER: $1k → 12%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN: $500 → 21%KAIROS USA: $500 → 11%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STATES: $250k → 17%AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $500 → 14%KALAMAZOO ISLAMIC CENTER: $500 → 12%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STATES: $50k → 17%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $16k → 14%HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $500 → 12%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION: $43k → 17%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $11k → 14%HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $500 → 12%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $11k → 14%CONGREGATION OF ST JOSEPH: $500 → 12%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $8k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100 → 12%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $5k → 14%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $3k → 14%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $1k → 14%AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE: $1k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE: $500 → 14%UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL: $1k → 14%FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $500 → 14%ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE: $500 → 14%INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES: $1k → 14%AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE: $500 → 14%FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $500 → 14%ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 82% of Kanaan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kanaan Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 15 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +61% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$78k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+61%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
InternationalHousing & ShelterSocial ScienceHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UP
    UNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +400%
  • AA
    AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +233%
  • IA
    IF AMERICANS KNEW
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • PO
    PILGRIMS OF IBILLINgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +61%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • UC
    US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Philanthropy
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

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…

International
3
Physicians for Palestine
Health
4
Institute Middle East Understanding Policy Project

Educate elected officials, policy-makers, and voters and advocate in congress and the executive branch for us policies that advance palestinian right and freedom.

—
5
Council for the National Interest Foundation

Educate the public on key policy issues towaeds the middle east and the peace proces through electronic media and outreach.

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6
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
7
American Muslim Instituition

Human Rights Project

Arts & Culture
8
Middle East Policy Council

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…

International
9
American-Middle East Press Association Inc

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

International
10
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

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,…

International
11
S Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace
International
12
American Committee for Middle East Rights

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYRIAD USA INC: $1,381,751 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $56,000 · International+8 more: $8,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF SABEEL-NORTH AMERICA: $4,500 · OtherKALAMAZOO ISLAMIC CENTER: $3,500 · OtherLEMKIN HOUSE: $2,000 · OtherAMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE: $1,250 · OtherHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $1,000 · OtherFOSNA: $1,000 · OtherKAIROS WEST MICHIGAN: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherUS CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 · OtherFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $2,140 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES (USA) INC: $1,000 · Social ScienceHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $500 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100 · Housing & Shelter
International$1,446,251Other$25,390Social Science$1,000Health$500Housing & Shelter$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $1,381,751 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC: $56,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPILGRIMS OF IBILLIN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE: $1,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM FUND FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES (USA) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIF AMERICANS KNEW: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAIR Michigan Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE: $800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmericans for Middle East Understanding Inc: $540 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST F: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Drs Subhi & Maysoon A…Isa S & Elizabeth Can…Tarbell Family Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Drs Subhi & Maysoon Ali Foundation IncTN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kanaan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kanaan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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