· Private foundation
Kuhn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $374k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION | $115,000 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER | $100,000 |
| VETERANS COMMUNIY PROJECT | $85,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $50,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $50,000 |
| GAVI THE VACCINE ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| EDUCAREREDIATEELEVATE | $28,750 |
| THE MALARIA CONSORTIUM | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES | $25,000 |
| MY BLOCK MY HOOD MY CITY | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
103 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $626k · revenue +21%
Feeding America8× · 2018–2025 · $604k · revenue +77%- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HIHOMEWISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +58%
- SLSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museumone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -35%
CITY HARVEST INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -36%
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.
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
How this is measured
144 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. 144 of the 204 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOMEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BETTY JEAN KERR PEOPLE'S HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HEAT UP ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE FATHERS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CURT'S CAFE ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE LTD ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kuhn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kuhn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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