Massachusetts · Private foundation
Kuehn Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $750k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Kuehn Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $748k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $257k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $760k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $287k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $429k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $966k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $655k | 88% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $585k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $925,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $600,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Trust for Public Land | $155,233 | 2 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund Board | $115,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Housing Navigator Massachusetts Inc | $101,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporation | $60,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Historic Boston Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Fort Point Arts Community Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kuehn Charitable 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Td Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kuehn Charitable Foundation
- How much does Kuehn Charitable Foundation give?
- Kuehn Charitable Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $750,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kuehn Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (42%), Civil Rights (28%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Kuehn Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Island Housing Trust Corporation ($925k), Pine Street Inn Inc ($600k), Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation ($300k).
- Does Kuehn Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kuehn Charitable 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 Kuehn Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc.
- Where is Kuehn Charitable Foundation based?
- Kuehn Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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