Arizona · Private foundation
Kraft Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Kraft Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 18 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $829k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $758k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $800k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $553k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pastoral Leadership Institute | $600,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Phoenix Seminary Inc | $550,000 | 5 | 3% |
| MentorKids USA | $360,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Multipli | $155,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Stand to Reason | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Scottsdale Bible Church | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Timothy Lutheran Church | $39,094 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pastoral Leadership Institute | $600,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Phoenix Seminary Inc | $550,000 | 5 | 3% |
| MentorKids USA | $360,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Multipli | $155,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Stand to Reason | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Scottsdale Bible Church | $50,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Timothy Lutheran Church | $39,094 | 3 | n/a |
| Chaparral Christian Church | $39,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lutheran Urbank Mission Agency | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran High School Association of Greater Kansas City | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Renewing America Inc | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Global Training Network Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kraft 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Kraft Foundation
- How much does Kraft Foundation give?
- Kraft Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $1,083,594 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Kraft Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (75%), Youth Development (11%), Education (7%).
- Who are Kraft Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pastoral Leadership Institute ($600k), Phoenix Seminary Inc ($550k), MentorKids USA ($360k).
- Does Kraft Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kraft Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kraft Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Servant Foundation, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
- Where is Kraft Foundation based?
- Kraft Foundation is based in AZ.
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