California · Private foundation
Kirkeby 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.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Kirkeby Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 81 | $58k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $57k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $57k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $41k | 66% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $55k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $44k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $46k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $39k | 64% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Community Housing Corporation | $59,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Allies for Every Child Inc | $29,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Institute Inc | $20,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Pacific Coast Dog Rescue Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $11,350 | 3 | 0% |
| Midcitycatsla Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marlborough School | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| North Park University | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Les Amies Inc | $6,250 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($126k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kirkeby 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: Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · Bradford Family Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Farrell Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gat Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Butchkie Foundation Inc · Paula Knickerbocker Foundation Inc · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation
How this is measured
About Kirkeby Foundation
- How much does Kirkeby Foundation give?
- Kirkeby Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $59,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kirkeby Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (16%), Education (15%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Kirkeby Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Venice Community Housing Corporation ($60k), Allies for Every Child Inc ($29k), Children's Institute Inc ($20k).
- Does Kirkeby Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kirkeby 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 Kirkeby Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation, Bradford Family Foundation, Seckinger Foundation Corporation.
- Where is Kirkeby Foundation based?
- Kirkeby Foundation is based in CA.
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