· Private foundation
Linda & Alan Kahn 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of Linda & Alan Kahn Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 38 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Linda & Alan Kahn Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 46 organizations, $223k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k56 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| WNYC | $20,000 |
| SAVE KITTY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF STAMFORD | $10,000 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| FOREST HILLS JEWISH CENTER | $5,819 |
| MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB | $5,008 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $3,580 |
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BIDEAWEE | $2,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $2,500 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
78 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
BARNARD COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $226k · revenue +50%- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CATS INC5× · 2019–2023 · $43k · revenue +104%
- NYNEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- PHPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- WIWOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +394%
- STSHIR TIKVAH (IMMIGRANT JUSTICE)one grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International House and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Station Square Inc. 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 47 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 108 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 COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CATS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVEKITTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds OPHTHALMICEDGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ANIMALKIND INC ↗
- Who funds APOPO US INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation 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: Jewish Communal Fund · American Express Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Linda & Alan Kahn 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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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