Missouri · Private foundation
Kuhn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Kuhn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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 | 68 | $1.2M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $728k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $575k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $750k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $2.2M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $1.0M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $566k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $522k | 43% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Center | $1,025,300 | 9 | 2% |
| Homewise Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $626,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $604,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 1% |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cancer Support Community of Greater St Louis | $140,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Betty Jean Kerr People's Health Centers | $140,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lift for Life Academy Inc | $132,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $132,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kuhn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Centene Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pershing Charitable Trust · Pott Foundation
How this is measured
About Kuhn Foundation
- How much does Kuhn Foundation give?
- Kuhn Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $1,153,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kuhn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Kuhn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Community Center ($1.0M), Homewise Inc ($1.0M), World Central Kitchen Inc ($626k).
- Does Kuhn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kuhn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kuhn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Kuhn Foundation based?
- Kuhn Foundation is based in MO.
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