How much does Kipp Foundation give?

Kipp Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $39,987,265, out of $41,856,580 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Kipp Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%), Community Improvement (0%).

Who are Kipp Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc ($40M), Kipp New York Inc ($24M), Kipp Socal Public Schools ($24M).

Does Kipp Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Kipp Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Broad Center, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

Where is Kipp Foundation based?

Kipp Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Kipp Foundation

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to succeed in college and beyond - so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

$42M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 28
Itemized grants FY2025: 29
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $40M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $1,108,304
Largest grant, FY2025: $5,138,908
Organizations funded a year: 29 to 32; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 22
Total assets, FY2025: $182M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kipp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	28	$40M	0%
FY2024	29	$36M	0%
FY2023	31	$39M	3%
FY2022	30	$45M	10%
FY2021	30	$35M	3%
FY2020	29	$21M	3%
FY2019	32	$17M	0%
FY2018	32	$20M	3%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$268MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MCommunity Improvement$988kSocial Science$731kArts & Culture$519kYouth Development$48k

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc	$40,198,776	9	1%
Kipp New York Inc	$24,399,572	9	11%
Kipp Socal Public Schools	$23,664,927	9	2%
Team Academy Charter School Inc	$17,327,469	9	3%
Kipp Bay Area Schools	$16,382,981	9	2%
Kipp Nashville	$15,300,498	9	5%
Kipp DC Public Charter Schools	$9,985,539	9	1%
Kipp Chicago	$9,076,482	9	n/a
Kipp of New Orleans Inc	$8,974,093	9	3%
Kipp Miami Inc	$8,442,177	9	17%

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All grantees of Kipp Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc	$40,198,776	9	1%
Kipp New York Inc	$24,399,572	9	11%
Kipp Socal Public Schools	$23,664,927	9	2%
Team Academy Charter School Inc	$17,327,469	9	3%
Kipp Bay Area Schools	$16,382,981	9	2%
Kipp Nashville	$15,300,498	9	5%
Kipp DC Public Charter Schools	$9,985,539	9	1%
Kipp Chicago	$9,076,482	9	n/a
Kipp of New Orleans Inc	$8,974,093	9	3%
Kipp Miami Inc	$8,442,177	9	17%
Kipp Baltimore Inc	$7,986,594	8	9%
Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc	$7,781,741	9	2%
Kipp Philadelphia Charter School	$7,541,609	9	6%
Kipp Jacksonville Inc	$6,943,633	8	6%
Kipp St Louis	$6,549,137	9	4%
Kipp Indianapolis Inc	$6,380,044	9	12%
Kipp Whole Child Center	$5,131,620	4	99%
Kipp Columbus	$4,863,429	9	5%
KIPP Colorado Schools	$4,671,349	9	3%
Kipp Capital Region Public Charter Schools	$4,421,409	9	5%
Kipp Kansas City	$3,933,313	9	10%
Kipp North Carolina	$3,870,799	4	19%
Kipp Okc Public Schools Inc	$3,614,223	9	9%
KIPP Minnesota	$3,320,276	9	7%
Kipp Lynn Fund Inc	$3,085,609	9	54%
Kipp Dallas-Fort Worth Inc	$3,002,658	3	5%
Kipp Memphis	$2,880,709	9	2%
Kipp Enc Public Schools	$2,800,677	5	5%
Kipp Tulsa Academy College Prep Inc	$2,307,450	9	7%
Kipp Delta Public Schools	$1,878,482	9	2%
Kipp San Antonio Inc	$1,286,271	3	2%
Kipp Charlotte Inc	$1,152,306	5	6%
KIPP Texas Inc	$827,315	3	1%
Mathematica Policy Research Inc	$731,152	4	n/a
Kipp Cooper Norcross Inc a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation	$549,170	3	0%
TOWNS - The One World Network of Schools co UKA Ventures	$328,408	2	13%
Kipp San Diego	$115,934	3	2%
Achievement First Inc	$17,380	1	0%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$7,000	1	0%

Kipp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 37.

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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.

The Broad CenterCA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Broad Center · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Project Lead the Way Inc · Louis Calder Foundation · 50can Inc · The Karsh Family Foundation · City Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Kipp Foundation

How much does Kipp Foundation give?: Kipp Foundation reported 28 itemized grants totaling $39,987,265, out of $41,856,580 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kipp Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Public Safety & Disaster (1%), Community Improvement (0%).
Who are Kipp Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: KIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc ($40M), Kipp New York Inc ($24M), Kipp Socal Public Schools ($24M).
Does Kipp Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kipp Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Broad Center, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
Where is Kipp Foundation based?: Kipp Foundation is based in CA.