How much does The Kahan Family Foundation give?

The Kahan Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $218,673 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Kahan Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (22%), Philanthropy (10%).

Who are The Kahan Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc ($95k), Jewish Theological Seminary of America ($85k), Project Ezrah Needs Inc ($72k).

Does The Kahan Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Kahan Family 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 Kahan Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc.

Where is The Kahan Family Foundation based?

The Kahan Family Foundation is based in DC.

The Kahan Family Foundation

The Kahan Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Kahan Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$219k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$38k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$734kReligion$429kPhilanthropy$198kHuman Services$139kInternational$123kHousing & Shelter$68kCrime & Legal$66kHealth$51kOther$0

02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k46 grants · $73k
$10k–50k10 grants · $145k

$1,800

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$37,500
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS	$18,000
YACHAD	$15,900
KANE SAT CAPITAL CAMPAIGN	$12,000
ETHAN FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM	$11,800
THE REED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$10,003
NEW TEACHER CENTER	$10,000
BAYIT ASSOCIATION	$10,000
TOMCHEI SHABBOS	$10,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY	$10,000
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA	$7,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,750
AMIT CHILDREN	$5,513
TZEDEK DC	$5,400
KEREN OR	$5,010

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 93 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+21%

Still filing today

65%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalReligionPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

YH
YESHIVA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC
4× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +79%
PE
Project Ezrah Needs Inc
4× · 2017–2020 · $72k · revenue +106%
SA
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +146%

Funded once

ST
SHAARE TEFILA CONGREGATION
one grant, 2017 · $36k
JF
JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION OF WOMENgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +56%
YL
YESHIVAT LEV HATORAH
one grant, 2023 · $18k

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.

04Its field

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.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Sherit Isroel

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

—

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

University of Judaism Foundation

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Yeshiva University High Schools

The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.

Education

Darchei Noam Inc

To enhance jewish education for children in israel by developing advanced educational methods, focusing on the building of personal relationships with the students to ensure that the needs of each individual are met. every child can be…

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Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education

The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lawzie Marigold Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 212 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

119/120

Grantees still filing

87/120

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$743,645Education$518,981Philanthropy$253,672Human Services$197,276Religion$101,384Crime & Legal$64,400International$56,378

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY49.6× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Cross River Community Foundation · George and Ellen Friedman Family Foundation · Granit Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Daniel E and Joyce G Straus Family Foundation · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kahan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kahan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

23get no government money at all

22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home