New Jersey · Private foundation
Koven Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $244k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Koven Foundation 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; $13k 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 | 41 | $239k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $273k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $292k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $188k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $330k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $222k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $140k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $247k | n/a |
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Community Foundation for St Vincent and the Grenadines Inc | $312,322 | 8 | 70% |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Jersey Highlands Coalition | $190,500 | 6 | 12% |
| Harding Land Trust | $123,000 | 8 | 6% |
| The Frederick Gunn School Inc | $111,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Corporation of St Timothy's School | $93,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Center for Rural PreservationInc | $69,000 | 7 | 67% |
| Foundation for Morristown Medical Center | $45,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Jersey Audubon Society | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Hunterdon Healthcare Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($413k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Koven Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Leavens Foundation Inc · Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation · The Kean Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Koven Foundation
- How much does Koven Foundation give?
- Koven Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $244,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Koven Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (38%), Education (27%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Koven Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Community Foundation for St Vincent and the Grenadines Inc ($312k), The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology ($210k), New Jersey Highlands Coalition ($191k).
- Does Koven Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Koven Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Koven Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Victoria Foundation Inc.
- Where is Koven Foundation based?
- Koven Foundation is based in NJ.
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