· Private foundation
The Ina Kay Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $48,000 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | $44,000 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation | $42,000 |
| Hazeldon Betty Ford Foundation | $42,000 |
| Days End Farm | $40,000 |
| Child Find of America | $37,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington | $37,000 |
| Capital Area Food Bank | $37,000 |
| Canine Companions for Independence | $37,000 |
| Concerns of Police Survivors | $32,000 |
| American Friends of the Hebrew University | $32,000 |
| Brain & Behavior Research Foundation | $32,000 |
| American Friends of Israel Sports Disabled | $32,000 |
| St Margarets Parish (Charlies Place) | $32,000 |
| American Heart Association | $32,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2023, 42 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% 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
Backed again, and grew
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum3× · 2017–2022 · $235k · revenue +25%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +53%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $147k · revenue +43%
Funded once
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue -4%- WIWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +51%
- ACAmerican Cancer Society Northeast Regionone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 107 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIND OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHFARM MARKETS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CADCA ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
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: The Kay Family Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Charles and Margaret Levin Family Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ina Kay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ina Kay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
- Humane Society of Marion County Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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