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.

Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation

Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.2M

Largest

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.

Recreation & Sports$4.8MEducation$3.6MSocial Science$3.2MHealth$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.5MHuman Services$510kArts & Culture$290kEmployment$260kOther$0

02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $25k
$10k–50k28 grants · $458k
$50k–250k11 grants · $900k
$250k+6 grants · $3.8M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$85M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$1,210,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY	$751,666
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE	$750,000
TRUENU	$500,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH	$275,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE	$275,000
THE AVERY COONLEY SCHOOL	$100,000
YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT	$100,000
DOE FUND INC	$100,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC	$100,000
THE BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION	$100,000
URBAN PEAK	$100,000
YEAR UP INC	$75,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC	$75,000
PARKINSON'S WELLNESS FOUNDATION	$50,000

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 (FY20–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 22% 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$21M · 60 repeat orgs$939k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$21M

$862k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+1%

Still filing today

82%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

Northwestern University
8× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +41%
AE
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
7× · 2019–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +47%
Cornell University
7× · 2019–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +50%

Funded once

LC
LAFAYETTE COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +28%
FA
FOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +130%
5I
5280FIRE INC
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

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

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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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

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg; the most unlike its peers is Navy League of the united states. 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

90 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. 90 of the 114 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)

90/90

Grantees still filing

57/90

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$4,697,500Recreation & Sports$4,609,417Social Science$4,010,000Other$3,966,750Health$2,390,856Philanthropy$1,312,800Housing & Shelter$1,285,000

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY21.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

14report 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