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Kuhn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.0MFood & Nutrition$918kPublic Safety & Disaster$731kHealth$684kYouth Development$507kInternational$500kPhilanthropy$422kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

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
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25, $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.

area typical 10%CONSTRUCTION FORUM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 21%CHILDREN OF THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%FOOD DEPOT: $25k → 12%HOME SWEET HOME: $3k → 11%CONSTRUCTION FORUM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 21%CHILDREN OF THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%CRISIS HOUSE: $10k → 11%FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%HOME SWEET HOME: $3k → 11%CHILDREN OF THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%HOME SWEET HOME: $3k → 11%CHILDREN OF THE FATHER'S HOUSE: $15k → 10%FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%HOME SWEET HOME: $3k → 11%FEED MY PEOPLE: $3k → 11%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $5k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $3k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $3k → 11%HEAT UP ST LOUIS: $50k → 21%HEAT UP ST LOUIS: $10k → 21%HEAT UP ST LOUIS: $10k → 21%HEAT UP ST LOUIS: $10k → 21%THE BUDDY FUND: $8k → 21%FATHER'S SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $3k → 21%FATHER'S SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $3k → 21%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 21%HAVEN HOUSE: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 21%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $500k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $125k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $115k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $115k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $55k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $35k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 103 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
69

Total granted

$5.8M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+11%

Still filing today

75%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $626k · revenue +21%
  • Feeding America
    8× · 2018–2025 · $604k · revenue +77%
  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • HI
    HOMEWISE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +58%
  • SL
    St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -35%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    one 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.

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
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. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
4
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
World Resources Institute

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…

International
6
People Inc

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,…

Human Services
7
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
8
American Gas Association

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…

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9
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
10
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gates Foundation. 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

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/144
Grantees still filing
90/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMEWISE INC: $1,000,000 · OtherHOMEWISE INCIndividual grant recipient: $199,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPHL INC: $190,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOO: $154,000 · OtherLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $132,500 · Other+130 more: $2,033,077 · Other+130 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,025,300 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CEN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $105,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Re…HEAT UP ST LOUIS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHEAT UP ST LOUIS INCCHILDREN OF THE FATHERS HOUSE: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOT: $50,000 · Human Services+16 more: $108,500 · Human Services+16 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $626,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL K…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $132,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $100,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST …UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $51,000 · International+11 more: $210,500 · International+11 moreFeeding America: $604,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding A…CITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARV…ILLINOIS HUNGER COALITION: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $140,000 · HealthBETTY JEAN KERR PEOPLE'S HEALTH CENTERS: $140,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $39,000 · HealthGULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $25,000 · HealthCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $15,000 · Health+11 more: $49,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of St Louis: $100,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE LTD: $40,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,709,077Human Services$1,428,800International$1,119,500Food & Nutrition$694,000Health$408,000Youth Development$376,000Philanthropy$352,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,025,300 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetHOMEWISE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $626,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $604,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $350,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $180,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $140,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetBETTY JEAN KERR PEOPLE'S HEALTH CENTERS: $140,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $132,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $132,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of St Louis: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEAT UP ST LOUIS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $66,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $65,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE FATHERS HOUSE: $60,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $51,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $48,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCURT'S CAFE: $42,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $42,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE LTD: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $39,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $32,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATE RADIATE ELEVATE: $28,750 over 1y, 71% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetILLINOIS HUNGER COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ARC INC: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $25,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGULF COAST REGIONAL BLOOD CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO66.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 204 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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