· Private foundation
The Kalan Foundation
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAFCO | $10,000 |
| THE HUNGER PROJECT | $6,000 |
| FINCA | $6,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,000 |
| SAYAGYIU U BAKHIN MEMORIAL TRUST | $3,000 |
| SPLC | $3,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $1,500 |
| FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| IBIS FRIENDS OF VETERANS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $1,000 |
| KATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FDN | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
37 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +41%
- FIFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +19%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
- CACEO AGAINST CANCER-PHILA CHAPTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FPFREE PRESSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +186%
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To protect national forests and to reform the u.s. forest service by advocating for environmental ethics, educating citizens, and defending whistleblowers.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 64 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BRIDLEWILD TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds All for One Pet Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Moms Across America ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kalan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kalan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
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