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Kuehn Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.0MCivil Rights$1.4MEnvironment$456kCommunity Improvement$397kArts & Culture$332kHuman Services$117kPhilanthropy$77kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST$500,000
HOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS$100,000
COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSITANCE CORPORATION$60,000
CHAPA$50,000
PINE STREET INN$25,000
MACDC-MEL KING INSTITUTE$11,000
PROJECT BREAD$2,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $656k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ABOVE THE CLOUDS: $1k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES: $5k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $520k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $30k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $25k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $25k → 16%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 15 repeat orgs$577k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +77% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
36

Total granted

$4.1M
$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+77%

Still filing today

60%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IH
    ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $925k · revenue +283%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $600k · revenue +90%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $155k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • MH
    MASS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP FUND BOARD
    one grant, 2017 · $165k
  • CH
    CITIZEN HOUSING PLANNING ASSOCIATES
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • HB
    HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -53%
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
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
3
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
9
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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10
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
11
Massachusetts Association of Realtors Inc

Provide an environment that positions the realtor as the primary source for real estate services, promotes a positive professional image of the realtor, and advocates preservation and enhancement of the rights to own, use and transfer real…

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12
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heading Home Inc; the most unlike its peers is Historic Boston Incorporated. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAPA: $871,580 · OtherCHAPACEDAC: $480,000 · OtherCEDACCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $300,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATIONTRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDS: $264,840 · OtherTRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDSMASS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP FUND BOARD: $165,000 · OtherMASS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP FUND BOARDPRESERVATION MASSACHUSETTS INC: $139,378 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP FUND BOARD: $115,000 · Other+25 more: $295,850 · Other+25 moreISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $925,000 · Housing & ShelterISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORP…HOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS INC: $101,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACH…+6 more: $64,609 · Housing & Shelter+6 morePINE STREET INN INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN…BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH C…+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $155,233 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentFORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION MASS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION ASSET FUND: $1,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $250 · Community Improvement
Other$2,631,648Housing & Shelter$1,090,609Human Services$656,000Environment$155,733Arts & Culture$126,500Philanthropy$77,000Community Improvement$27,250

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 budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $925,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $600,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $155,233 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS INC: $101,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVATION MASS: $40,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $36,109 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS NOT HOPELESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetABOVE THE CLOUDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION CLUB OF BOSTON INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…Rockland Trust Charit…Liberty Mutual Founda…Barr FoundationChildren's Hospital C…Rockland Trust - Blue…Cummings Foundation G…Td Charitable Foundat…Fidelity FoundationMassachusetts Bankers…
Boston Foundation IncMA36.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc: 8% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report 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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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