· Private foundation
Michael A Kahn Family Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2018–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLT HOST 2020 INC | $100,000 |
| Charlotte Touchdown Club | $100,000 |
| University of GA Atheltic Association | $92,100 |
| THE FLETCHER SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| THE KIRBY SMART FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CHECKERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE | $20,000 |
| RESCUE RANCH INC | $18,750 |
| DICK TOMEY LEGACY FUND | $10,000 |
| PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE - SECURITY FORUM INC | $10,000 |
| DARLINGTON FUND | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM | $10,000 |
| CONVENTION OF STATE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- CTCHARLOTTE TOUCHDOWN CLUB2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +7%
- RRRESCUE RANCH INC2× · 2018–2019 · $38k · revenue +3%
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TKThe Kevin & Brittney Kisner Foundationone grant, 2018 · $15k
- TSThe Spike & Sharon Dykes Foundationone grant, 2018 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $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.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
To market the upstate sc region to attract business investment. to support economic development efforts of the upstate alliance investors. to build cohesive relationships among the region's private and public sectors.
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the most unlike its peers is Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 28 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 CHARLOTTE TOUCHDOWN CLUB ↗
- Who funds CLT HOST 2020 INC ↗
- Who funds THE KIRBY SMART FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE-SECURITY FORUM ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds KinderMourn Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Michael A Kahn Family Foundation 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.
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.