Connecticut · Private foundation
Karin Bain and John Kukral 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.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 67
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $85M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $909k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $5.1M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $4.7M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $3.7M | 51% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $2.9M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $2.5M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $1.4M | 73% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $665k | 93% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $4,584,417 | 8 | 0% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $3,800,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Cornell University | $3,430,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Truenu | $1,300,000 | 3 | 16% |
| The Doe Fund Inc | $625,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $625,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | $550,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Urban Peak Denver | $510,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Avery Coonley School | $490,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc | $475,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rose Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation with peer funders
About Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation
- How much does Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation give?
- Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $5,144,566 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (28%), Education (21%), Social Science (19%).
- Who are Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($4.6M), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ($3.8M), Cornell University ($3.4M).
- Does Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karin Bain and John Kukral 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 Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Rose Community Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation based?
- Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation is based in CT.
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