· Private foundation
Kauffman Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $983k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS' HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $750,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $660,000 |
| THE LOVETT SCHOOL | $450,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $200,000 |
| MERCER UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| FERNBANK MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY - WINSHIP CANCER INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| ATLANTA HUMANE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| THE SCHENCK SCHOOL | $83,333 |
| WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +112%
- EUEmory University8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +61%
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER4× · 2022–2025 · $800k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- WCWinship Cancer Instituteone grant, 2017 · $113k
- KMKIPP METRO ATLANTAone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
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…
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
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.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
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…
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Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
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…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Fernbank Inc ↗
- Who funds READSOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA 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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kauffman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kauffman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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