Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Kern Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $365k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Kern Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $365k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $265k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $150k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $490k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $124k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $287k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $245k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $162k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vision for the Poor | $515,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Erie Together | $120,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Erie Zoological Society | $112,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Mercy Center for Women Inc | $105,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Julia Hospice & Palliative Care | $100,000 | 1 | 10% |
| United Way of Erie County | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Erie County Historical Society | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Martin Center | $47,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Public Broadcasting of Northwest Pennsylvania Inc | $35,605 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kern Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Merwin Foundation · The Arts Council of Erie · The Britton Family Foundation · Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · McBrier Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kern Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Kern Family Foundation Inc give?
- Kern Family Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $364,925 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kern Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), International (23%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Kern Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Vision for the Poor ($515k), Erie Together ($120k), Erie Zoological Society ($113k).
- Does Kern Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kern Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kern Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, M J Surgala Tr, Wabtec Foundation.
- Where is Kern Family Foundation Inc based?
- Kern Family Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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