New York · Private foundation
Kotsen Family 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $621k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kotsen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 6 | $28k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $28k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $10k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $33k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $49k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $48k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $27k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Montessori School | $92,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dwight-Englewood School | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $29,364 | 7 | 0% |
| Music Will Inc | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American School in London Foundation | $17,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $11,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Barnard College | $6,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Burnt Store-Ppyc Charitable Boating Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Montessori School | $92,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dwight-Englewood School | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $29,364 | 7 | 0% |
| Music Will Inc | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American School in London Foundation | $17,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $11,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Barnard College | $6,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Burnt Store-Ppyc Charitable Boating Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trevor Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Sean Lugano Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Public Radio | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Trekking for Kids Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($51k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kotsen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kotsen Family Foundation
- How much does Kotsen Family Foundation give?
- Kotsen Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $28,388 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kotsen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (81%), Arts & Culture (9%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Kotsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Metropolitan Montessori School ($92k), Dwight-Englewood School ($30k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($29k).
- Does Kotsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kotsen Family 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 Kotsen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Charities Aid Foundation America, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Kotsen Family Foundation based?
- Kotsen Family Foundation is based in NY.
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