· Private foundation
Ken Hubbard Fund
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $132,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $42,000 |
| SUNFLOWER NETWORK | $20,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $20,000 |
| VENETIAN HERITAGE | $20,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $15,000 |
| URBAN LAND INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PATHFINDERS | $10,000 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $10,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| UNITED STATES SKI TEAM | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $5,000 |
| PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ASPEN WILDFIRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $651k · revenue +51%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $273k · revenue +243%- TUTHE ULI FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- PMPREVENTATIVE MEDICINE INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TLTHE LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -91%
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 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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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…
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 93 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
- Who funds City Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER NETWORK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VENETIAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LYFORD CAY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds DANCEASPEN ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Florence ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ken Hubbard Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ken Hubbard Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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