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Michele & Thomas Kahn Foundation Inc at a glance

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Michele & Thomas Kahn Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$126k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
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 2025.

Health$284kEducation$257kArts & Culture$222kReligion$99kSocial Science$40kEnvironment$12kPhilanthropy$11kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$6,130
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$54,500
METROPOLITAN OPERA$25,000
ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY THERAPY$15,000
HORACE MANN SCHOOL$10,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$8,844
CARNEGIE HALL$6,130
WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL$4,000
THE MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE$1,000
KENT SCHOOL$1,000
PIANOSONOMA$500
NY BOTANICAL GARDEN$300
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BRIDGE: $400 → 17%THE BRIDGE: $250 → 17%THE BRIDGE: $200 → 17%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

ME
VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
TN
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$932k · 47 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2026, 37 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
41

Total granted

$932k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+39%

Still filing today

66%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropySocial ScienceRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN
    6× · 2020–2026 · $129k · revenue +517%
  • HM
    Horace Mann School
    7× · 2017–2026 · $82k · revenue +21%
  • TU
    THE ULI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • WH
    WAVE HILL INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • PL
    PENN LIBRARIES
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER REAL ESTATE AND CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
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
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
12
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is The Iwfs Foundation Inc. 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

60 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. 60 of the 90 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
46/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN OPERA: $114,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $60,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINECONGREGATION EMANUEL: $58,065 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $36,358 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC+41 more: $87,910 · Other+41 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $109,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…Horace Mann School: $82,250 · EducationHorace Mann SchoolTHE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC: $23,000 · EducationTHE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHO…Cornell University: $20,050 · EducationCornell UniversityKENT SCHOOL: $10,150 · Education+9 more: $7,250 · EducationCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $129,439 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $23,072 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM …THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $21,842 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CO…WNET: $10,200 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $10,065 · Arts & CultureACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $101,700 · HealthACKERMAN INSTI…JBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,370 · HealthJBI INTERNATIO…+7 more: $4,150 · HealthTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $30,000 · Social ScienceLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $65,640 · Philanthropy+2 more: $600 · PhilanthropyWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $250 · Environment
Other$356,333Education$251,700Arts & Culture$194,618Health$138,220Social Science$70,000Philanthropy$66,240Environment$10,250

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 budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $129,439 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $109,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $101,700 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHorace Mann School: $82,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC: $65,640 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,370 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $23,072 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $21,842 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $20,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $10,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $10,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $6,432 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,585 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING FOR THE ARTS NY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS G LABRECQUE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of New York: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCITY FUTURES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE INC: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $846 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $804 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $790 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IWFS FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA GREENHOUSE NURSERY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAKER RIDGE EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESONANT BODIES FESTIVAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE GUILD INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JBI INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WAVE HILL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…William Randolph Hear…The New York Communit…Booth Ferris Foundati…Pinkerton FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Tides FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Communal FundNY22.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · William Randolph Hearst Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Michele & Thomas Kahn Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Michele & Thomas 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 90 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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