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Lee and Louis Kuhn Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lee and Louis Kuhn Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$155kHealth$143kArts & Culture$118kEducation$70kScience & Tech$48kPhilanthropy$14kHuman Services$12kAnimals$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$1,030
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$20,600
WEIZMANN-ACWIS (AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE)$6,000
AFORAM(AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER)$5,005
ANIMAL RESCUE MISSION$5,000
MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
STEELE CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTER$3,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,500
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND$2,061
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$2,000
ARIZONA HEMOPHILIA SOCIETY$2,000
HORACE MANN SCHOOL$2,000
WEEKDAY SCHOOL RIVERSIDE$2,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,500
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, $6k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%TOGETHER CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%CHILDREN'S MUSIC FUND: $1k → 14%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
IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$462k · 59 repeat orgs$166k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
104

Total granted

$462k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

59%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +302%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +94%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    2× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • MA
    MIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • WS
    WEEKDAY SCHOOL SCHOOL OF RIVERSIDE CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR SPINAL RESTORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -7%
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
5
New York University

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.

Education
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

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…

Education
7
Aim At Melanoma

Aim at melanoma (aim) is globally engaged and locally invested in advancing the battle against melanoma through innovative research, legislative reform, education, and patient and caregiver support. founded in 2004, aim at melanoma is the…

Health
8
Brightfocus Foundation

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…

Health
9
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
10
American College of Radiology

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…

Health
11
Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

The alliance for regenerative medicine (arm) is the preeminent global advocate for regenerative and advanced therapies. arm fosters research, development, investment and commercialization of transformational treatments and cures for…

Health
12
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 183 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/83
Grantees still filing
51/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE: $80,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCEKOCE-TV FOUNDATION: $19,000 · OtherKOCE-TV FOUNDATIONSTEELE CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTER: $13,467 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $12,500 · Other+119 more: $205,827 · Other+119 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,700 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KER…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $27,510 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE R…AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $23,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR TH…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $22,600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEF…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $17,530 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECH…THE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $11,000 · InternationalTHE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUN…+4 more: $9,522 · International+4 moreAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $42,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CINEM…CUNY TV FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Arts & CultureCUNY TV FOUNDA…SKEPTIC SOCIETY: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSKEPTIC SOCIET…BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $6,296 · Arts & CultureBLOOMINGDALE S…PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA G…+6 more: $4,350 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,200 · HealthARIZONA HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION INC: $5,600 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR SPINAL RESTORATION: $5,000 · HealthBanner Health Foundation: $4,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,850 · HealthSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,650 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,100 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,900 · HealthNEW YORK CITY HEMOPHILIA CHAPTER INC: $1,700 · Health+13 more: $9,650 · HealthHorace Mann School: $16,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $14,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $10,000 · EducationTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,205 · EducationMIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association Inc: $2,000 · Education+3 more: $2,780 · EducationFOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE: $6,500 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,850 · PhilanthropyACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $526 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyANIMAL RESCUE MISSION: $11,500 · AnimalsANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Animals+1 more: $200 · Animals
Other$330,794International$161,862Arts & Culture$89,146Health$50,150Education$47,485Philanthropy$14,076Animals$12,700

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 NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE: $42,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $27,510 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $22,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUNY TV FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetKOCE-TV FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $17,530 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Mann School: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSKEPTIC SOCIETY: $12,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE MISSION: $11,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT SENIOR CITIZEN NUTRITION PROGRAM INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS INSTITUTE: $6,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $6,296 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA HEMOPHILIA ASSOCIATION INC: $5,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SPINAL RESTORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE: $3,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $2,061 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT PINBALL CHARITY GROUP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY HEMOPHILIA CHAPTER INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALS ASSOCIATION MID-AMERICA CHAPTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNE FRANK CENTER USA INC: $1,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENTS AGAINST ANTISEMITISM INC: $1,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association Research Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

John Templeton Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…American Express Foun…The Albertsons Compan…California Community …The Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…AbbVie FoundationJewish Communal FundNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
John Templeton FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lee and Louis Kuhn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee and Louis Kuhn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Lee and Louis Kuhn Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 183 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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