California · Private foundation
Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 85%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 85% of the organizations Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 44 | $2.9M | 84% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.1M | 85% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.2M | 71% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.7M | 80% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $1.8M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $664k | 78% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $526k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarmatch Inc | $3,375,475 | 5 | 33% |
| Ready to Succeed | $3,221,394 | 4 | 56% |
| Combat Hate Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 5% |
| America Needs You | $456,500 | 2 | 10% |
| Year Up Inc | $450,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Steinberg Institute | $300,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Southern California Grantmakers | $206,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Kcrw Foundation Inc | $153,611 | 1 | 1% |
| La-Tech Org | $129,250 | 1 | 7% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($599k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · Weingart Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation
- How much does Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation give?
- Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,883,871 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (77%), Arts & Culture (5%), Employment (4%).
- Who are Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Scholarmatch Inc ($3.4M), Ready to Succeed ($3.2M), Combat Hate Foundation ($500k).
- Does Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ric & Suzanne Kayne 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 Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation based?
- Ric & Suzanne Kayne Foundation is based in CA.
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