· Private foundation
Kmd 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $353k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $500,000 |
| BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCE COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SPB COUNTY | $100,000 |
| NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL | $85,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $66,758 |
| JDC | $50,900 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $45,000 |
| MARQUEE ARTS | $35,000 |
| BERKSHIRE INTL FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| JEWISH VOTERS RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE FORWARD ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| JACOB'S PILLOW | $5,500 |
| 18 DEGREES | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 64% of Kmd Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 1%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +42%- NKNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +118%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE - DONOR ADVISEDone grant, 2022 · $139k
- HIHILLEL INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $50k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
How this is measured
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT MAHARAT INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP ↗
- Who funds The Forward Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds KATZ YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AYH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARDES INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Robert & Helen Hardman Family Fund #95-290240 · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation · Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kmd Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kmd Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
- Construct Inc: 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc: 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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