· Private foundation
Kaufman Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Kaufman Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Kaufman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $38k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS MIDWEST | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE | $5,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $3,500 |
| CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION | $3,150 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $3,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL | $2,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS | $1,000 |
| MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| UVA LIBRARY | $350 |
| LUBAVITCH CHABAD OF NORTHBROOK | $252 |
| SPERTUS INSTITUTE | $250 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2021, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago3× · 2018–2021 · $70k · revenue +52%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $67k · revenue +243%- IAINTERFAITH AMERICA4× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +395%
Funded once
- TSTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +24%
- GVGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DIVone grant, 2017 · $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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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.
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.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 66 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Arts Midwest Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Society for Contemporary Art C-O The Art Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD 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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Kaufman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaufman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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