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The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 9
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Science & TechEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$28k0%
FY20247$28k14%
FY20237$28k14%
FY20229$28k22%
FY20218$29k13%
FY20208$24kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$40kInternational$39kScience & Tech$31kCrime & Legal$24kHuman Services$22kEducation$4kPublic Benefit$2kHealth$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Center for Science Education$31,00060%
Humane Borders Inc$27,50062%
Massachusetts Bail Fund$24,00061%
South Texas Human Rights Center Inc$22,50063%
Rosenberg Fund for Children Inc$22,00060%
Fajr Scientific$11,00020%
Colibri Center for Human Rights$11,00042%
Yellowhammer Fund$6,50030%
Progress Texas Institute$2,10020%
Rockley Family Foundation$2,02510%
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson$2,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Center for Science Education: $31,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Borders Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMassachusetts Bail Fund: $24,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSouth Texas Human Rights Center Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetRosenberg Fund for Children Inc: $22,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFajr Scientific: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColibri Center for Human Rights: $11,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProgress Texas Institute: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRockley Family Foundation: $2,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action

How much does The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action give?
The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action reported 6 grants totaling $27,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (25%), International (24%), Science & Tech (19%).
Who are The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: National Center for Science Education ($31k), Humane Borders Inc ($28k), Massachusetts Bail Fund ($24k).
Does The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Network for Good, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action based?
The a Robert Kaufman Foundation for Working Class Action is based in VA.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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