How much does Koch Family Foundation give?

Koch Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $134,485 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Koch Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (35%), International (25%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Koch Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs ($409k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($402k), Navy Pier Inc ($171k).

Does Koch Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Koch Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Koch Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation.

Where is Koch Family Foundation based?

Koch Family Foundation is based in IL.

Koch Family Foundation

Koch Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Koch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$34k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$579kInternational$411kArts & Culture$188kReligion$81kEnvironment$68kEducation$61kHuman Services$53kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $25k
$10k–50k5 grants · $109k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$193k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION	$34,035
CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS	$25,000
YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK	$25,000
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE	$15,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY	$10,000
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER	$5,000
NATURALLY CHICAGO	$5,000
TEMPLE SHALOM	$3,990
CONGREGATION BETH ELOHIM	$3,960
MHUB	$2,500
CIVIC FEDERATION	$2,500
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION	$1,000
CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS	$1,000
PAN-MASS CHALLENGE	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 35 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%

+33%

Still filing today

66%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
6× · 2018–2025 · $402k · revenue +97%
NP
NAVY PIER INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $171k · revenue +32%
TJ
THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $166k · revenue +73%

Funded once

GA
GORDON A RICH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $5k
JS
J STREET EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2017 · $5k
CP
COLLEGE POSSIBLE INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +81%

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.

04Its field

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.

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Public Media Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 79 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/45

Grantees still filing

31/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$411,000Food & Nutrition$402,167Other$495,624Arts & Culture$187,500Community Improvement$61,852Human Services$51,000Recreation & Sports$50,000

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.

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.

Polk Bros Foundation IncIL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust · Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 · The Canning Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Koch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Koch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home