· Private foundation
Lee and Louis Kuhn Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE | $30,000 |
| AFORAM(AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER) | $22,505 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE | $5,192 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE GRACE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $2,500 |
| AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY | $2,033 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $2,000 |
| BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $2,000 |
| WEEKDAY SCHOOL AT RIVERSIDE CH | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN GIVES INC | $1,100 |
| STUDENTS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM INC | $1,040 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE6× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +302%
- CTCUNY TV FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $19k · revenue +117%
- HMHorace Mann School4× · 2019–2023 · $15k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MAMIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $7k
- WSWEEKDAY SCHOOL SCHOOL OF RIVERSIDE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Please see schedule o
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundational Questions Institute. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 167 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CUNY TV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KOCE-TV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds SKEPTIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SPINAL RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John Templeton Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 organization Lee and Louis Kuhn Foundation Inc 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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