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Illinois · Public charity

Kirkland & Ellis Foundation

In addition to funding matching contributions for employees and partners under the firm's matching gifts program, the KIRKLAND & ELLIS FOUNDATION provides financial support to other organizations that are exempt under irc section 501(c)(3).

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
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Total assets, FY2024
$13M
0% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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Find your warmest path to Kirkland & Ellis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kirkland & Ellis Foundation

How much does Kirkland & Ellis Foundation give?
Kirkland & Ellis Foundation reported $2,802,937 in grants in its FY2024 IRS filing. Individual grant detail isn't itemized in the e-filed return we have. It is referenced on an attached schedule, or the latest filing isn't in our corpus yet.
Where is Kirkland & Ellis Foundation based?
Kirkland & Ellis Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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