Arizona · Private foundation
Kautz Family 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.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 57
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Kautz Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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 | 57 | $4.0M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $4.3M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $3.5M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $3.5M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $3.1M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $2.8M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton College | $1,900,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $1,763,215 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Inc | $1,458,335 | 7 | 0% |
| Literacy Connects | $985,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Southern California Grantmakers | $515,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Time For Change Foundation | $500,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Tucson Botanical Gardens | $493,645 | 7 | 3% |
| Mission Asset Fund | $475,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Western Center on Law & Poverty Inc | $475,000 | 5 | 2% |
| A New Way of Life Reentry Project | $450,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kautz Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Weingart Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The California Endowment · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The California Wellness Foundation · California Community Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation
How this is measured
About Kautz Family Foundation
- How much does Kautz Family Foundation give?
- Kautz Family Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $4,231,062 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 57 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Kautz Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (9%), Health (7%).
- Who are Kautz Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Carleton College ($1.9M), University of Arizona Foundation ($1.8M), Community Food Bank Inc ($1.5M).
- Does Kautz Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kautz Family 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 Kautz Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is Kautz Family Foundation based?
- Kautz Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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