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The Ada Howe Kent Foundation

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 45
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Ada Howe Kent Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20231$1.0M100%
FY202240$469k30%
FY202145$591kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Education$474kScience & Tech$150kInternational$115kArts & Culture$113kHealth$109kEnvironment$82kCommunity Improvement$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ada Howe Kent Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiddlesex School: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Service Fellowship: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $53,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe National Fragile X Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSherman Volunteer Fire Department: $23,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCape Ann Museum Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPan Am Historical Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGrace Church School: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIslesboro Islands Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJuilliard School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Netherland-America Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community House Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHazlet Township First Aid & Rescue Squad: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bottom Line Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Monuments Fund Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe James Beard Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGloucester Stage Company Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Sherman Historical Society Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Southampton Fresh Air Home: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 23.

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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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Ada Howe Kent Foundation

How much does The Ada Howe Kent Foundation give?
The Ada Howe Kent Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,000,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 45 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Ada Howe Kent Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (21%), Science & Tech (7%), International (5%).
Who are The Ada Howe Kent Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Cornell University ($150k), The Trustees of the Smith College ($100k), Middlesex School ($70k).
Does The Ada Howe Kent Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ada Howe Kent 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 The Ada Howe Kent Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is The Ada Howe Kent Foundation based?
The Ada Howe Kent Foundation is based in NJ.

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 59 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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