Virginia · Private foundation
The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $812,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $1.7M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $1.5M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $2.4M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $1.9M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.8M | 61% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $3,789,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The George Washington University | $2,535,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Washington Hospital Center Corporation | $425,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Inn at Nih Inc | $370,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for US Global Leadership | $250,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Temple Shalom | $133,500 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 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: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Kay Family Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · The MB Lewis Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc
- How much does The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc give?
- The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc reported 35 grants totaling $1,732,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Education (31%), Religion (3%).
- Who are The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Children's Hospital Foundation ($3.8M), The George Washington University ($2.5M), Johns Hopkins University ($1.1M).
- Does The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clark-Winchcole Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc based?
- The Cyrus Katzen Foundation Inc is based in VA.
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