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Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$18,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS OF NEW YORK$25,000
FATHERS DAY MOTHERS DAY COUNCIL INC$18,200
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$8,750
FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION$6,000
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 (FY23–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FATHERS DAY MOTHERS DAY COUNCIL INC: $18k → 13%FATHERS DAY MOTHERS DAY COUNCIL INC: $8k → 13%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
UT
VA
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Kenneth Cole Productions Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 77%.

Kenneth Cole Productions Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$762k · 8 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$762k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MH
    Mental Health Coalition Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $515k · revenue +26% · 29% of their budget
  • FI
    FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue +31%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IF
    IF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • CR
    CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
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
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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2
New York University

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.

Education
3
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

—
4
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
5
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
The Mayer - Rothschild Foundation
Health
8
The International Foundation
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9
Freud Foundation Us
Arts & Culture
10
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
11
Berggruen Institute
Education
12
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation; the most unlike its peers is If Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mental Health Coalition Inc: $515,000 · PhilanthropyMental Health Coalition IncSESAME WORKSHOP: $131,610 · Arts & CultureSESAME WORKSHOPSundance Institute: $12,250 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $31,000 · OtherFASHION IN…AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · OtherAFTER SCHO…HOPE FOR HAITI: $5,000 · OtherHOPE FOR H…IF FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherIF FOUNDAT…The New School: $5,000 · OtherThe New Sc…GARDEN STATE BAR FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 · Other+1 more: $376 · OtherNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $20,000 · HealthCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE FASHION FOOTWEAR CHARITABLE: $5,000 · HealthNAMI National: $1,455 · HealthFATHER'S DAYMOTHER'S DAY COUNCIL INC: $26,200 · Human ServicesTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $10,556 · International
Philanthropy$515,000Arts & Culture$143,860Other$79,126Health$36,455Human Services$26,200Community Improvement$15,000International$10,556

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 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
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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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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