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Kass Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$317k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Kass Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$12k13%
FY202315$11k20%
FY202213$10k31%
FY202111$11k18%
FY202010$12k10%
FY201917$12k18%
FY201813$10k8%
FY201715$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$25kHousing & Shelter$23kFood & Nutrition$22kArts & Culture$7kEducation$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kCivil Rights$3kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
CA
MD
AZ
KS
HI
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kass Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMeals on Wheels West: $7,575 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Mission Inc: $5,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGo for Broke National Educational Center: $3,675 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget1979 Legacy Corp: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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About Kass Foundation

How much does Kass Foundation give?
Kass Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $11,974 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kass Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Housing & Shelter (26%), Food & Nutrition (25%).
Who are Kass Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Meals on Wheels West ($8k), Los Angeles Mission Inc ($6k), Go for Broke National Educational Center ($4k).
Does Kass Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kass 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.
Where is Kass Foundation based?
Kass Foundation is based in CA.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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