Texas · Private foundation
Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation
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.
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 58
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 74 | $4.6M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $2.8M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $2.2M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $702k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $1000k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union for Reform Judaism | $805,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Jewish Community Action | $510,000 | 8 | 12% |
| Breakthrough | $486,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc | $420,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $308,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Neighborhood House | $307,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Workers Defense Project | $299,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Foundation Communities Inc | $277,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha | $277,000 | 6 | 3% |
| St Edwards University | $259,400 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · St David's Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Better Business Bureau
How this is measured
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About Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation
- How much does Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation give?
- Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $4,589,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (25%), Education (18%), Religion (16%).
- Who are Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Union for Reform Judaism ($805k), Jewish Community Action ($510k), Breakthrough ($486k).
- Does Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shield-Ayres Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation based?
- Michael and Alice Kuhn Foundation is based in TX.
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