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Kenneth Cole Foundation at a glance

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Kenneth Cole 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.

$105k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$447kPhilanthropy$218kEducation$201kSocial Science$105kCivil Rights$78kYouth Development$55kArts & Culture$55kReligion$22kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLE FAMILY FOUNDATION$100,000
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 9%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 9%END RAPE ON CAMPUS: $5k → 14%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$561k · 12 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
47

Total granted

$561k
$570k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+38%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    COLE FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +31% · 100% of their budget
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +81%
  • SL
    STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MH
    Mental Health Coalition Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $375k · revenue +489%
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH HOSPICE CARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +31%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Cole Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 61 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mental Health Coalition Inc: $375,000 · PhilanthropyMental Health Coalition IncCOLE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCOLE FAMILY FOUNDATIONSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $46,000 · PhilanthropySTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC+3 more: $21,000 · PhilanthropySUNDANCE INSTITUTE: $110,000 · OtherSUNDANCE INSTITUTEBRADY CAMPAIGN & CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $60,000 · OtherBRADY CAMPAIGN & CENTER TO P…NORTHWELL HEALTH HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $15,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC: $15,000 · Other+29 more: $112,643 · Other+29 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNI…+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $75,000 · EducationGOVERNORS COMMITTEE ON SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationTHE YARD INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORING THE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $10,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesEND RAPE ON CAMPUS: $5,000 · Human ServicesBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$642,000Other$312,643Community Improvement$100,500Education$88,000Arts & Culture$49,250Health$23,500Human Services$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $46,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YARD INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWARK MENTORING MOVEMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOSS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COPPER BRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenneth Cole Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth Cole Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kenneth Cole Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kenneth Cole Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 61 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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where grant money is based, and what stays home