Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Kimsey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $945k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 58
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $45M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Kimsey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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 | 44 | $945k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $673k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $748k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $860k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $747k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $635k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $444k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $494k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Chance | $883,800 | 8 | 10% |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $350,000 | 7 | 1% |
| McLean Project for the Arts | $232,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Halcyon House | $230,300 | 5 | 4% |
| 826dc Inc | $209,829 | 8 | 7% |
| Learnserve International | $200,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Washington International School | $177,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $167,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Campbell Hall -Episcopal- | $140,982 | 2 | n/a |
| Higher Achievement Program Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 112 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kimsey Foundation 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Weissberg Foundation · Jack Kent Cooke Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Annenberg Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kimsey Foundation
- How much does Kimsey Foundation give?
- Kimsey Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $944,850 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kimsey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Education (18%), Health (15%).
- Who are Kimsey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fair Chance ($884k), Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation ($350k), McLean Project for the Arts ($233k).
- Does Kimsey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kimsey 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 Kimsey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation.
- Where is Kimsey Foundation based?
- Kimsey Foundation is based in DC.
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