· Private foundation
Kanitz Louis J & Golda I Main Ac
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LA | $100,000 |
| BISHOP OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $100,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $5,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| MUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +195%
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $18k · revenue +149%
- ACAQUINAS COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- MCMUSKEGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FBOone grant, 2023 · $14k
- GVGRAND VALLEY ST UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $8k
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +82%
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 121 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.
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: Myer & Lois Franklin Charitable Tr · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Speerstra Peter & Evelyn · The Allegan County Community Foundation · The Gerber Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Fred & Florence Dengler Scholarship Fund · The VombergTrumley Foundation · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kanitz Louis J & Golda I Main Ac funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kanitz Louis J & Golda I Main Ac. Bigger dots raise more.
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