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S Kann Sons Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

S Kann Sons Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$88kFood & Nutrition$72kHuman Services$62kEducation$62kHousing & Shelter$57kHealth$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOME CAPITAL CAMPAIGN$20,000
DC HISTORY CENTER$20,000
WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY$5,000
FOOD AND FRIENDS$5,000
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT$5,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$5,000
MARTHA'S TABLE$5,000
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY$5,000
A WIDER CIRCLE$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$5,000
LISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOME$5,000
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $5k → 14%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $2k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 14%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

NH
NY
PA
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$449k · 53 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
11

Total granted

$449k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+68%

Still filing today

62%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +21%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +39%
  • JS
    JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • DU
    DUKE UNIVERISTY LIBRARIES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BL
    BIPARTISAN LEADERSHIP PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • DD
    DOMENICO D MANICHELLO 529 COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…

Education
6
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
7
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
8
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
9
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

—
12
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Phillips Collection. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 67 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOME CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $40,000 · OtherLISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOME CAPITAL CAMPAIGNDC HISTORY CENTER: $30,000 · OtherDC HISTORY CENTERLISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOME: $25,000 · OtherLISNER-LOUISE-DICKSON-HURT HOMESIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherSIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOLDUKE UNIVERISTY LIBRARIES: $10,000 · OtherSO OTHERS MIGHT EAT: $10,000 · OtherBIPARTISAN LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $10,000 · Other+29 more: $99,200 · Other+29 moreFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $17,000 · HealthFOOD & FRIEN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $9,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOS…BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $4,500 · HealthBETHESDA-CHE…JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $21,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOC…MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $12,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S K…Iona Senior Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesIona Senio…JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $16,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR …MARTHA'S TABLE INC: $16,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S T…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AR…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $22,000 · InternationalWORLD CEN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …A WIDER CIRCLE INC: $22,500 · EducationA WIDER C…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationGEORGETOW…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $3,000 · EducationTrustees …THE SEED FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationTHE SEED …AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · EducationWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art: $2,000 · Arts & CultureOur Joyful Noise Baltimore Inc: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$240,200Health$53,500Human Services$46,000Food & Nutrition$45,000International$44,000Education$40,000Arts & Culture$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIona Senior Services: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Washington DC dba DC History Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOME INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConservation Nation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOur Joyful Noise Baltimore Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $500 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 A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Iona Senior Services ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Historical Society of Washington DC dba DC History Center ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Carl & Nancy Gewi…George Wasserman Fami…Michael and Deborah R…Galena-Yorktown Found…Posner-Wallace Founda…The Tomares Family Fo…Adler Family Foundati…Sanford and Doris Sla…The Ryna and Melvin C…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund Inc · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · Michael and Deborah Ratner Salzberg Family Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Tomares Family Foundation Inc · Adler Family Foundation Inc · Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc · The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation

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 S Kann Sons Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Kann Sons Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Suburban Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home