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Kanter Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$517k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$529kPublic Benefit$495kCivil Rights$213kReligion$131kInternational$99kEnvironment$82kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Better Utah Institute$95,000
Lubeznick Center for the Arts$65,000
Chikaming Open Lands$50,000
Tulane Program Development$25,000
Tulane University$22,000
Arena Stage Theatre$20,000
Temple Rodef Shalom$17,634
International Sculpture Center$17,500
Crohn's and Colitis Foundation$16,000
The Langley School$15,000
Neighborhood House$10,000
Experimental Station$10,000
Rowland Hall St Mark's School$10,000
Kenya Education Fund$10,000
And Justice for All$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Hannah and Friends: $500 → 13%Kenya Education Fund: $15k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Kenya Education Fund: $10k → 17%Utah Foster Care: $3k → 8%Options for Youth: $250 → 14%Neighborhood House: $45k → 8%Neighborhood House: $30k → 8%Neighborhood House: $10k → 8%Neighborhood House: $10k → 8%Neighborhood House: $10k → 8%Neighborhood House: $5k → 8%Living WIth Pride: $500 → 8%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
NE
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
LA
GA
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 83 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
104

Total granted

$4.4M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+13%

Still filing today

59%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • HYDE PARK ART CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $575k · revenue +64%
  • BU
    Better Utah Institute
    9× · 2017–2025 · $497k · revenue +421% · 68% of their budget
  • RH
    ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $271k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TE
    The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence EFSGV
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • MM
    Media Matters of America
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • JT
    John Talleur Student Support Fund Art Institute of Chicago
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Utah Humanities Council

Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…

Arts & Culture
2
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Aclu of Utah Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.

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9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hannah & Friends Weis Family Foundation Inc. 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

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 205 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/108
Grantees still filing
69/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

John F Kennedy Center: $251,655 · OtherJohn F Kennedy CenterUniversity of Chicago Smart Museum: $130,000 · OtherUniversity of Chicago Smart MuseumTEMPLE RODEF SHALOM: $113,619 · OtherTEMPLE RODEF SHALOMCarnegie Mellon University: $102,500 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityEducational Fund to Stop Gun Violence: $85,000 · OtherLubeznick Center for the Arts: $65,000 · Other+134 more: $1,082,760 · Other+134 moreHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $575,000 · Arts & CultureHYDE PARK ART CENTERTHE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $141,050 · Arts & CultureTHE JACK AND SHIRLEY LU…Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: $105,500 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contempo…INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $93,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE…WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIET…+18 more: $92,095 · Arts & Culture+18 moreROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $271,000 · EducationROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S …University of Chicago: $208,500 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $180,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF T…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $148,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN …THE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC: $145,000 · EducationTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INCGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $37,500 · Education+8 more: $78,000 · Education+8 moreBetter Utah Institute: $496,510 · Civil RightsBetter Utah …EQUALITY UTAH: $21,800 · Civil Rights+4 more: $31,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION: $166,500 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $4,860 · Community ImprovementNeighborhood House Association: $110,010 · Human ServicesKENYA EDUCATION FUND: $95,000 · Human Services+4 more: $3,750 · Human ServicesCHIKAMING OPEN LANDS: $115,000 · EnvironmentHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH: $11,000 · Environment+4 more: $4,600 · Environment
Other$1,830,534Arts & Culture$1,077,145Education$1,069,250Civil Rights$549,310Community Improvement$246,360Human Services$208,760Environment$130,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $575,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetBetter Utah Institute: $496,510 over 9y, 68% of budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $271,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $208,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $180,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION: $166,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $148,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC: $145,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $141,050 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetCHIKAMING OPEN LANDS: $115,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $110,010 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $105,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $102,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKENYA EDUCATION FUND: $95,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $93,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetEducational Fund to Stop Gun Violence: $85,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAND JUSTICE FOR ALL: $30,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK STUDENT FUND: $27,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH: $21,800 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH: $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAction Utah Education Fund: $8,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC: $7,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWomen of the World: $6,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL GOODS PARTNERS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetClean Slate Utah: $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUTUREINDESIGN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHELPER PROJECT: $4,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetUTAH HEALTH & HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT: $3,225 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Better Utah Institute ↗
  • Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK STUDENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗

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.

George S and Dolores …Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Community Foundat…Ballard Miller Founda…Sorenson Legacy Found…McCarthey Family Foun…Larry H Miller and Ga…The Diane and Sam Ste…Marriner S Eccles Fou…David Kelby Johnson M…Dominion Energy Chari…Lightspark Foundation
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT45.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ballard Miller Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lightspark 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 Kanter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kanter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
27report 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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How do I get to Kanter Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kanter Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 205 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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