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Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust

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.

$736k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 26
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$736k8%
FY202423$716k13%
FY202322$496k14%
FY202226$595k38%
FY202117$325k53%
FY20209$220k44%
FY201914$52kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.6MInternational$560kHealth$499kReligion$260kFood & Nutrition$75kHuman Services$68kScience & Tech$55kEnvironment$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
MD
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Operation International Ltd$195,00053%
Save The Children Federation Inc$105,00040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$100,00050%
Trevor Project Inc$95,00050%
St Joan of Arc Catholic Church$76,0007n/a
Meals on Wheels America$75,00030%
Donna Klein Jewish Academy Inc$50,00040%
Rainbow Railroad USA Inc$45,00050%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$40,00040%
Patriot Paws Service Dogs$35,00040%
Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOperation International Ltd: $195,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels America: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDonna Klein Jewish Academy Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRainbow Railroad USA Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPatriot Paws Service Dogs: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBarry University Inc: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS Healthcare Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of South Florida Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteer Florida Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRochester Area Neighborhood House: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPoint Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFinal Exit Network Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommon Ground: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Organization for Women Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Ordination Conference: $1,700 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of the Faithful Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Morikami Inc: $285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCall to Action: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors FoundationCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust?

Find your warmest path to Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust 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 Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust

How much does Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust give?
Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust reported 24 grants totaling $736,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), International (18%), Health (16%).
Who are Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Operation International Ltd ($195k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($105k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($100k).
Does Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust 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 Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust based?
Kolasa Foundation Trust Bessemer Trust is based in FL.

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 45 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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