Delaware · Private foundation
Kookaburra 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.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,356
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Kookaburra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $249k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $188k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $184k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $129k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $124k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $126k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $117k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $96k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Horse Trials Foundation Inc | $202,056 | 8 | 1% |
| Lynx Educational Foundation Inc | $107,200 | 7 | 12% |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc | $92,385 | 8 | 1% |
| The Shenandoah Foundation Inc | $92,000 | 4 | 72% |
| Fuel Foundation | $81,183 | 2 | n/a |
| Tower Hill School Association | $41,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Willowdale Steeplechase Inc | $39,765 | 6 | 3% |
| Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc | $35,402 | 3 | 0% |
| Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Troubadour Project Inc | $28,800 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($342k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kookaburra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Sharp Foundation · Wa Speakman Family Foundation · Stratus Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Mountain Laurel Foundation · Blue Yak Foundation · Dean Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation
How this is measured
About Kookaburra Foundation
- How much does Kookaburra Foundation give?
- Kookaburra Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $250,190 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kookaburra Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (29%), Recreation & Sports (19%).
- Who are Kookaburra Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Horse Trials Foundation Inc ($202k), Lynx Educational Foundation Inc ($107k), Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc ($92k).
- Does Kookaburra Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kookaburra Foundation 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 Kookaburra Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sharp Foundation, Wa Speakman Family Foundation, Stratus Foundation.
- Where is Kookaburra Foundation based?
- Kookaburra Foundation is based in DE.
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