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Minnesota · Public charity

The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation

In 1985 the organization had 20 million dollars with a purpose of funding medical organizations, jewish organizations and other worthwhile organizations. Since inception, the harry kay foundation has provided over 50 million dollars to various organizations in the minneapolis-st paul area.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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97% of The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Minneapolis Jewish Federation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
1
’18
1
’19
1
’20
1
’21
1
’22
1
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$307,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,004,093
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
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$35k0%
FY20221$75k0%
FY20211$75k0%
FY20201$60k0%
FY20191$58k0%
FY20181$100k0%
FY20172$220kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$9.0MReligion$523kHuman Services$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewfolk Media Inc$523,350738%
Minnesota Jewish Community Center Foundation$100,00011%

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About The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation

How much does The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation give?
The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,346,594 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Religion (5%), Human Services (1%).
Who are The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Jewfolk Media Inc ($523k), Minnesota Jewish Community Center Foundation ($100k).
Does The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation based?
The Harry Kay Charitable Foundation is based in MN.

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 4 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $112k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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