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Phyllis & Donald Kahn Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2022
59
Grants FY2022
11
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Education$82kArts & Culture$49kHealth$23kEnvironment$20kInternational$17kScience & Tech$12kAnimals$11kCivil Rights$9kOther$0
02FY2022 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k58 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
$500
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$36,000
SCHUBERT CLUB$5,000
THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP$2,000
THE SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM$500
COUSTEAU SOCIETY$500
FRIENDS OF THE SMITHSONIAN$500
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$500
CONSUMER REPORTS$500
WORLD WITHOUT GENOCIDE - WILLIAM MITCHELL COLLEGE$500
PARKS AND TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA$500
RUTGERS FOUNDATION$500
SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION$500
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$500
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$500
THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%WAY TO GROW: $500 → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $500 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $300 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $250 → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$206k · 63 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 48 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
23

Total granted

$206k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+27%

Still filing today

63%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +105%
  • PE
    PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +69%
  • SC
    SCHUBERT CLUB THE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS- UNIV OF MINN
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE TEACHING FOR ANY LEVEL OF LEARNER
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • NF
    NEIGHBORS FOR EAST BANK LIVABILITY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
4
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
5
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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6
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
7
Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment
8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation

To support charitable, plant-based scientific, and educational activities exclusively for the benefit of the minnesota landscape arboretum of the university of minnesota

Environment
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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12
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is Juvenile Justice Advocates International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%1%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr16%46%35–55yr18%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr18%44%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
6/101
the rest of the field
10%
3,824/38,888

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.

04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 133 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/96
Grantees still filing
66/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONFORWARD GLOBAL WOMEN — $10,000 · OtherFORWARD GLOBAL WOMENPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $8,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSHIR TIKVAH — $7,500 · OtherSHIR TIKVAHINSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS- UNIV OF MINN — $5,000 · OtherMINNESOTA MEDICAL FOUNDATION MASONIC CANCER CENTER — $4,500 · Other+72 more — $64,550 · Other+72 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $36,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA …Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $4,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute …President and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…Yale University — $4,000 · EducationYale UniversityCornell University — $4,000 · EducationCornell University+6 more — $4,350 · Education+6 moreSCHUBERT CLUB THE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSCHUBERT CLUB TH…MUSICIANS IN DEBUT INTERNATIONAL — $14,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICIANS IN DEB…The Arts Partnership — $4,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts Partner…+10 more — $5,100 · Arts & Culture+10 moreMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY — $4,000 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $3,000 · EnvironmentWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $2,250 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $1,650 · EnvironmentLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT — $1,250 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,150 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $1,000 · Environment+4 more — $1,750 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $4,000 · HealthSoutheast Seniors A living at homeblock nurse program — $1,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $800 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $500 · HealthMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $500 · HealthNAMI National — $500 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Health+1 more — $200 · HealthLeague of American Wheelman Inc — $4,900 · Recreation & SportsPARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA — $1,300 · Recreation & SportsBICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA — $500 · Recreation & SportsTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $1,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,150 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $1,000 · InternationalThe Advocates For Human Rights — $1,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $500 · InternationalGLOBAL EXCHANGE — $500 · International
Other$129,550Education$57,100Arts & Culture$38,100Environment$16,050Health$9,000Recreation & Sports$6,700International$6,650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $36,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSCHUBERT CLUB THE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICIANS IN DEBUT INTERNATIONAL — $14,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetFORWARD GLOBAL WOMEN — $10,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetLeague of American Wheelman Inc — $4,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYale University — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arts Partnership — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $1,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Seniors A living at homeblock nurse program — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA — $1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTARBASE MINNESOTA INC — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENVENTURE — $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR NONSMOKERS - MINNESOTA — $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOLF CENTER — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENUMBRA THEATRE COMPANY INC — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROWTH & JUSTICE — $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION — $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSeward Neighborhood Group — $550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The McKnight Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustPohlad Family Foundat…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Xcel Energy FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Fr Bigelow FoundationHugh J Andersen Found…The K Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN47.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · The K 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 Phyllis & Donald 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
23report 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

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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How do I get to Phyllis & Donald Kahn Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Phyllis & Donald 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 133 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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