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Koven Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$244k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$795kEducation$553kPhilanthropy$312kHealth$117kArts & Culture$73kFood & Nutrition$60kAnimals$53kHuman Services$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION$30,000
THE GUNN SCHOOL$30,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT$25,000
ST TIMOTHYS SCHOOL$20,000
TEWKSBURY LAND TRUST$20,000
HARDING LAND TRUST$20,000
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$10,000
ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST$10,000
FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY$5,000
NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION$5,000
NEWARK MUSEUM$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
NEW JERSEY AUDOBON SOCIETY$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 4%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 4%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 4%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 4%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 4%FLEMINGTON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
FL
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 62 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+76%

Still filing today

55%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +63%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $191k · revenue +51%
  • HL
    HARDING LAND TRUST
    8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SM
    SCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue +76%
  • JS
    JONATHAN SLUSHER SCHOLARSHIP FDN
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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
The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust

Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…

Animals
2
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
3
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
4
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
5
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey

The land conservancy of new jersey preserves land and water resources, conserves open space, and inspires and empowers individuals and communities to protect land and the environment.

Environment
6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
8
Palisades Nature Association

To promote and sponsor, with the cooperation of the palisades interstate park commission, a sanctuary on the top of the cliffs in the new jersey section of the palisades interstate park known as greenbrook sanctuary. the association's…

Animals
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
11
Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc

The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…

Environment
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frederick Gunn School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tewksbury First Aid & Rescue Squad. 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

40 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. 40 of the 70 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $190,500 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITIONHARDING LAND TRUST: $123,000 · EnvironmentHARDING LAND TRUSTCenter for Rural PreservationInc: $69,000 · EnvironmentCenter for Rural PreservationI…New Jersey Audubon Society: $40,000 · EnvironmentNew Jersey Audubon SocietyGreat Swamp Watershed Association: $29,500 · EnvironmentGreat Swamp Watershed Associat…NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EnvironmentSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $20,500 · EnvironmentISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC: $20,000 · Environment+6 more: $23,500 · EnvironmentTEWKSBURY LAND TRUST: $112,000 · OtherTEWKSBURY LAND TRUSTTHE GUNN SCHOOL: $85,000 · OtherTHE GUNN SCHOOLTHE NEWARK MUSEUM: $40,000 · OtherTHE NEWARK MUSEUMTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE HIGHLANDS COALITION: $30,000 · OtherTHE HIGHLANDS COALITIONINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,000 · Other+32 more: $213,000 · Other+32 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $210,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEV…THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $111,000 · EducationTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOO…CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $93,500 · EducationCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTH…+2 more: $14,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC: $312,322 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUN…+1 more: $2,200 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $45,000 · HealthHUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · HealthBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC: $6,000 · Health+2 more: $4,250 · HealthFlemington Area Food Pantry Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8,500 · Arts & CultureINDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED: $6,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,100 · Arts & Culture
Environment$538,000Other$535,000Education$428,500Philanthropy$314,522Health$91,250Human Services$35,000Arts & Culture$25,100

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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC: $312,322 over 8y, 70% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $210,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION: $190,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetHARDING LAND TRUST: $123,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetTHE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC: $111,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $93,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Rural PreservationInc: $69,000 over 7y, 67% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFlemington Area Food Pantry Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association: $29,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHUNTERDON LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GOW SCHOOL: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $8,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED: $6,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER FRIENDS INC: $4,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK PINE CIRCLE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TEWKSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,200 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PECK SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEWKSBURY FIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD: $1,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILLOWWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE FREDERICK GUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Center for Rural PreservationInc ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds HUNTERDON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Flemington Area Food Pantry Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTERDON LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
  • Who funds INDIGENOUSWAYS INCORPORATED ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Bristol-Myers Squibb …Victoria Foundation I…Investors Foundation …Chubb Charitable Foun…The Leavens Foundatio…Ernest Christian Klip…The Kean Foundation I…Fm Kirby Foundation I…Ej Grassmann TrustGeraldine R Dodge Fou…Pseg Foundation Inc
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Raritan Headwaters Association: 94% of income from government
  • Hunterdon Land Trust: 48% of income from government
  • Pinelands Preservation Alliance: 35% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: 21% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • New Jersey Audubon Society: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 70 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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