· Private foundation
The Kahn 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITTINGHAM CANCER CENTER | $12,000 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS WILMER EYE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| COPE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +206%
- DEDISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +48%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
Funded once
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.
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…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
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…
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Please see schedule o
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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.
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- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kahn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kahn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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