How much did KUHN FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of KUHN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k41 grants · $180k
$10k–50k18 grants · $374k
$50k–250k9 grants · $600k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION$115,000
ACTION AGAINST HUNGER$100,000
VETERANS COMMUNIY PROJECT$85,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA$50,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS$50,000
GAVI THE VACCINE ALLIANCE$50,000
INSPIRATION CAFE$30,000
EDUCAREREDIATEELEVATE$28,750
MY BLOCK MY HOOD MY CITY$25,000
UNICEF$25,000
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
BETTY JEAN KERR PEOPLE'S HEALTH CENTER$25,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.5M · 102 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

102 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102

Total granted

$5.5M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+41%

Still filing today

51%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN
6× · 2020–2025 · $626k · revenue +1417%
FEEDING AMERICA
4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +77%
CS
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY
8× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +31%

Funded once

HI
HOMEWISE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +68%
CITY HARVESTgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +54%
SL
ST LOUIS KAPLAN FELDMAN HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -86%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank for Central

Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.

Food & Nutrition

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc

United way of greater kansas city's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of greater kansas city.

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Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals... feeding san diego is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community…

Food & Nutrition

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

The Community Foundation of Louisville

To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.

Philanthropy

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

St Louis Community Foundation

Administer charitable funds for the betterment of st. louis

Philanthropy

Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

The Community Foundation of Louisville

To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.

Philanthropy

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice.

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Webster University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/108

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,457

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

103 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/103

Grantees still filing

76/103

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,379,745International$730,000Food & Nutrition$384,000Health$357,000Youth Development$351,000Education$234,420Human Services$212,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO61.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation KUHN FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AWAKEN PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463449897 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AWAKEN PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Kuhn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kuhn Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

KUHN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?