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Kohn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$60kHealth$56kCrime & Legal$25kReligion$13kHousing & Shelter$5kFood & Nutrition$3kArts & Culture$1kAnimals$500
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$780k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER$10,000
READING PARTNERS DC$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PA$3,500
CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$3,000
EASTTOWN LIBRARY$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PROJECT HOME: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113k · 6 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$113k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+5%

Still filing today

83%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +20%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +43%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TR
    TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +30%
  • WE
    WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -47%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOME
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

1
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
2
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
7
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
8
Philadelphia Bar Foundation

Promoting equal access to justice for all members of the community by strengthening the legal services system through unrestricted operating grants and technical assistance to legal aid non profits.

Crime & Legal
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Roger Williams University School of Law

The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…

Education
12
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa; the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of the Smith College. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

READING PARTNERS: $40,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERSTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $17,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $35,200 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEA…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATI…TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGA…THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE PUBLIC INTEREST …HAR ZION TEMPLE SISTERHOOD: $9,000 · OtherHAR ZION TEMP…TEMPLE BETHZION-BETH ISRAEL: $2,675 · OtherTEMPLE BETHZI…EASTTOWN LIBRARY: $2,500 · OtherEASTTOWN LIBR…BARTRAM'S GARDEN: $2,500 · OtherBARTRAM'S GAR…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PA: $2,500 · OtherPLANNED PAREN…BRYN MAWR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherAMERICAN SWEDISH HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $1,000 · OtherTHE MELMARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherPROJECT HOME: $5,000 · Human ServicesEasttown Library Foundation: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Education$82,500Health$44,200Crime & Legal$35,000Other$22,675Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREADING PARTNERS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $35,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEasttown Library Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Kohn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kohn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kohn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kohn 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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