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M B Kahn Foundation Inc at a glance

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M B 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.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$216kEducation$111kReligion$81kPhilanthropy$66kCommunity Improvement$41kArts & Culture$32kPublic Benefit$26kCivil Rights$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$1,100
Median grant
4
States reached
$356k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND$25,300
BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$19,200
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK$7,500
MTC FOUNDATION$5,800
DORCHESTER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$5,500
CENTRAL SC COMMITTEE OF 100$5,174
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
NERESA$5,000
SOUTHERN CAROLINA REGIONAL ALLIANCE$2,500
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$2,500
GOOD SHEPARD COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC$2,000
PAWLEYS ISLAND FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & ART$1,600
RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL$1,500
FRIENDS OF CAROLINE HOSPICE$1,200
CONGAREE VISTA GUILD$1,100
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, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS: $500 → 16%PROJECT LIFE: $840 → 13%CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS: $500 → 16%CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS: $500 → 16%SPARTANBURG JUNETEENTH INC: $2k → 15%YWCA GREATER CHARLESTON: $750 → 12%SPARTANBURG JUNETEENTH INC: $2k → 15%YWCA GREATER CHARLESTON: $530 → 12%THE BABCOCK CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%LIVE LIKE LONDON FOUNDATION: $680 → 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

NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$567k · 54 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
75

Total granted

$567k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • BM
    BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $101k · revenue +258%
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +34%
  • LM
    LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • N
    NESA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • MF
    MUSC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • MG
    MULTIPLYING GOOD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -78%
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
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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2
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
3
Scbio Foundation

By focusing on the mission to enhance the development and growth of south carolina's life sciences industry ecosystem and by strengthening the state's workforce, education, innovation, and research infracstructure, the foundation works to…

Science & Tech
4
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

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5
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
6
Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit
7
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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8
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
9
South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation

The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…

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10
South Carolina Council On Economic Education

Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.

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11
Conway Hospital Foundation Inc

The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…

Health
12
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Carolina Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Myeloma 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

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 148 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
47/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBIA JEWISH CENTER: $68,650 · OtherCOLUMBIA JEWISH CENTERTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF COLUMBIA: $58,300 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF COLUMBIARICHLAND TWO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $36,550 · OtherRICHLAND TWO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $22,529 · OtherLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDA…COLUMBIA MUSUEM OF ART: $17,200 · OtherCOMMITTEE OF 100: $16,185 · Other+99 more: $191,159 · Other+99 moreBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,820 · HealthBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL F…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $28,500 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH …PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $16,072 · HealthPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUND…American Heart Association Inc: $8,950 · HealthAmerican Heart Association I…+6 more: $10,380 · Health+6 moreTHE NORTH EASTERN STRATEGIC ALLIANCEINC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementDorchester Economic Development Corporation: $13,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN CAROLINA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $1,351 · Community ImprovementCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $8,340 · EducationRIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,975 · EducationSouth Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities: $2,150 · EducationRICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA: $2,000 · EducationFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $1,500 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationEducation Foundation for Isle of Wight Public Schools Inc: $930 · EducationTHE UNUMB CENTER FOR NEURODEVELOPMENT: $800 · Education+5 more: $1,950 · EducationCAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesSPARTANBURG JUNETEENTH INC: $4,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $1,280 · Human ServicesProject Life Inc: $840 · Human ServicesLIVE LIKE LONDON FOUNDATION: $680 · Human ServicesBABCOCK CENTER FOUNDATIONINC: $500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCAMDEN COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $500 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $1,880 · Youth Development100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER COLUMBIA INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Village Group: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$410,573Health$164,722Community Improvement$34,351Education$22,645Human Services$14,050Philanthropy$11,000Youth Development$8,880

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 budgetBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,820 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $22,529 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $16,072 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH EASTERN STRATEGIC ALLIANCEINC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDorchester Economic Development Corporation: $13,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRICHLAND LIBRARY FRIENDS: $9,400 over 2y, 51% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $8,340 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWELVISTA: $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CAROLINA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL: $3,975 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TUOMEY FOUNDATION: $3,410 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAROLINE HOSPICE OF BEAU: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMDEN COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,172 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities: $2,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,880 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALMETTO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA SOUTH CAROLINA POWER TEAM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYBREAK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $1,280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKERSHAW COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,260 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,190 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCONGAREE VISTA GUILD: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKATIE AND IRWIN KAHN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorchester Paws: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Village Group: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER FOR PEOPLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Foundation for Isle of Wight Public Schools Inc: $930 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Life Inc: $840 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNUMB CENTER FOR NEURODEVELOPMENT: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGENUITYSC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF CONTROL FOR SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PORTSMOUTH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBABCOCK CENTER FOUNDATIONINC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COURAGE CENTER: $420 over 1y, 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 BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH EASTERN STRATEGIC ALLIANCEINC ↗
  • Who funds Dorchester Economic Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND LIBRARY FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WELVISTA ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CAROLINA REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG JUNETEENTH INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERVIEW CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE TUOMEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CAROLINE HOSPICE OF BEAU ↗
  • Who funds CAMDEN COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Michael J Mungo Found…Coastal Community Fou…Kw Beverage Foundatio…First Citizens Founda…The Winston-Salem Fou…Davis Family Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationDabo's All in Team Fo…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Duke Endowment
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC41.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Kw Beverage Foundation Inc · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Duke Endowment

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 M B Kahn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M B Kahn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report 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.
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    How do I get to M B Kahn Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to M B Kahn 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 148 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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