How much does Kane Family Foundation give?

Kane Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $41,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Kane Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), International (15%), Education (13%).

Who are Kane Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Americares Foundation Inc ($29k), Wyoming Outdoor Council ($26k), Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ($17k).

Does Kane Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Kane Family 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 Kane Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Where is Kane Family Foundation based?

Kane Family Foundation is based in VT.

Kane Family Foundation

Kane Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kane 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.

$42k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

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.

Environment$78kInternational$62kEducation$52kPhilanthropy$32kCivil Rights$23kHealth$21kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$1000k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
CHELSEA'S FUND WYOMING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS	$3,000
LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CHALLENGE FOR CHARITY	$2,500
SPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND	$2,000
AMERICARES	$2,000
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDRENESS ALLIANCE	$2,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE	$2,000
JUST THE PILL	$1,600
EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN	$1,200
FREINDS OF ISLAND INITIATIVES	$1,000
HUDSON LINK HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON	$1,000
MY COMMUNITY NURSE PROJECT	$1,000
IPAS PARTNERS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUCTICE	$1,000
ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE	$1,000
GRATEFUL HEARTS MANCHESTER	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$325k · 53 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$325k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+11%

Still filing today

51%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalEducationHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther

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

WO
WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL
5× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +68%
SU
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +134%
CF
CHELSEA'S FUND
6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +163%

Funded once

THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +40%
Save The Children Federation Inc
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +0%
ME
MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +424%

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.

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Parks Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Carter Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 125 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

64/66

Grantees still filing

38/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$204,050International$70,300Environment$54,200Education$37,950Civil Rights$23,500Health$11,850Public Benefit$6,400

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.

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.

PatagoniaorgCA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Kane Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kane Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home