Arizona · Private foundation
The Kai Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $193k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Kai Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $188k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $161k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $151k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $150k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $132k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $125k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $100k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $101k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson Chinese Association Inc | $163,500 | 8 | 11% |
| Tucson Symphony Society | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Caring Ministries Inc | $67,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Christian Properties Inc | $55,000 | 8 | 80% |
| Marshall Home for Men INC | $28,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Portable Practical Educational Preparation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marana High School PTO | $25,000 | 7 | 70% |
| Pepperdine University | $22,400 | 3 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Up With People Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($490k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kai Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Haugh Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Elizabeth Read Taylor Foundation · The Carl & Mabel Shurtz Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · Tucson Medical Center · Social Venture Partners Tucson
How this is measured
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About The Kai Family Foundation
- How much does The Kai Family Foundation give?
- The Kai Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $192,980 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kai Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Religion (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Kai Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tucson Chinese Association Inc ($164k), Tucson Symphony Society ($75k), Caring Ministries Inc ($67k).
- Does The Kai Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kai Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kai Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona.
- Where is The Kai Family Foundation based?
- The Kai Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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