How much does The Kalt Family Foundation give?

The Kalt Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $147,893 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Kalt Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (25%), Philanthropy (18%).

Who are The Kalt Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Scripted Inc Dba Code Nation ($580k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($464k), University of Michigan ($160k).

Does The Kalt Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Kalt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Kalt Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Dancing Tides Foundation Inc, Mosher Foundation.

Where is The Kalt Family Foundation based?

The Kalt Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Kalt Family Foundation

The Kalt Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Kalt Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$148k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$68k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$946kHealth$735kPhilanthropy$537kFood & Nutrition$138kArts & Culture$131kInternational$121kReligion$107kCivil Rights$37kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $29k
$10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$50k–250k1 grant · $68k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO	$67,500
SANTA BARBARA FOOD BANK	$25,000
NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY	$15,750
CONGREGATION BNAI BRITH	$10,495
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$5,516
AFISCD	$5,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
LAKEVIEW PANTRY	$2,500
MISSION SCHOLARS	$2,500
DIRECT RELIEF	$2,000
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL	$1,084
SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$1,030
KESHET	$1,000
NYC MARATHON - NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS	$1,000

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, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 45 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+9%

Still filing today

60%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther

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

JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
9× · 2017–2025 · $464k · revenue +13%
UO
University of Michigan
3× · 2017–2019 · $160k · revenue +202% · 38% of their budget
DU
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
3× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +7%

Funded once

NS
NORTH SHORE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $30k
HF
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCOgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +69%
UW
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue -50%

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dream Hustle Code. 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

73 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. 73 of the 126 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)

71/73

Grantees still filing

43/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,429,462Education$759,518Philanthropy$503,438International$100,994Human Services$65,188Food & Nutrition$54,000Recreation & Sports$27,799

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL16.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · Mosher Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Brittingham Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · United Jewish Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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