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The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$48,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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
FY2024still arriving10$53k40%
FY202313$102k54%
FY202215$97k73%
FY20215$33k100%
FY20192$11k0%
FY20183$209kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$341kPhilanthropy$79kArts & Culture$46kInternational$38kReligion$36kCommunity Improvement$20kRecreation & Sports$13kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees
All grantees of The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$40,00020%
Northridge Hospital Foundation$25,00020%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$21,50020%
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation$20,50020%
The Sobe Room Inc$20,000310%
Academyhealth$20,00020%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$16,50020%
Usta Foundation Incorporated$12,50010%
Operation Song Inc$10,00012%
University of Michigan$10,00012%
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun$7,5001n/a
Joseph R Narot Fund Inc$2,50011%
Jackson Health Foundation Inc$2,50030%
Researchamerica$2,00020%
Miami Beach K9 Knights Inc$2,00021%
Singula Institute$1,50011%
Fans for the Cure$1,25010%
Chabad of Lakeview Inc$1,1502n/a
Experience Camps$5001n/a
Chabad Jewish Student Center DC$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($288k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthridge Hospital Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMount Sinai Medical Center Foundation: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sobe Room Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetAcademyhealth: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUsta Foundation Incorporated: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Song Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJoseph R Narot Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJackson Health Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetResearchamerica: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Beach K9 Knights Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSingula Institute: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFans for the Cure: $1,250 over 1y, 0.5% 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 16.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation

How much does The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation give?
The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $101,450 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (58%), Philanthropy (13%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($40k), Northridge Hospital Foundation ($25k), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($22k).
Does The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation based?
The Joseph H Kanter Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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