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Kenneth Cole Productions 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.

$58k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
64%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$18,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$58k25%
FY202411$196k64%
FY20235$290k40%
FY20223$260k67%
FY20213$20k100%
FY20203$2kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$551kArts & Culture$144kEducation$39kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$25kInternational$16kEmployment$15kCrime & Legal$376Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CT
UT
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMental Health Coalition Inc: $515,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetSesame Workshop: $131,610 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFashion Institute of Technology Foundation: $31,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFather's Daymother's Day Council Inc: $26,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTwo Ten Footwear Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute: $12,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Nations Foundation Inc: $10,556 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIf Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChristopher Reeve Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York STEM Cell Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fashion Footwear Charitable: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe New School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden State Bar Foundation Inc: $2,750 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNAMI National: $1,455 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch for Our Lives Foundation: $376 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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.

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About Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation

How much does Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation give?
Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $57,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (67%), Arts & Culture (17%), Education (5%).
Who are Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mental Health Coalition Inc ($515k), Sesame Workshop ($132k), Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation ($31k).
Does Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kenneth Cole Productions 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 Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation based?
Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation is based in NY.

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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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