· Private foundation
The Kaman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $344k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC | $95,000 |
| AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR | $60,000 |
| HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $44,778 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| OVERLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION | $29,350 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD - LAUREL KAMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| SANTA FE MUSIC COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD - HELEN KAMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| ART DIVISION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD - CHARLES KAMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| STEVE SUTTON MEMORIAL CHARITY | $20,000 |
| TEXAS WOMEN SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EPELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +4%
- OPOUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +134%
- ACAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY5× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- VSVAN STEPHENSON MEM CANCER REone grant, 2024 · $50k
- FCFORT COLLINS MUSIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $19k
- FSFERNANDINA SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k
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 washington conservatory of music provides exceptional musical learning & listening experiences for students and the community. its vision is a community inspired and informed by the experience of music.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
To inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts
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…
To promote the music of living composers through concerts, educational programs and by fostering new works by composers at all levels of development.
Concert Artists Guild's mission is to discover, nurture, and promote young musicians and help them build sustainable careers.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
To enrich lives and community through great music.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
To provide space for artists to work and to engage community through arts education, exhibitions of contemporary art, and cultural events.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT DRAFT HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Fe Music Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds Overland Mountain Bike Association ↗
- Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds SoLA Contemporary ↗
- Who funds Art Division ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FERNANDINA SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN GUITAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
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 William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The John G Martin Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kaman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kaman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph: 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- New England Center for Circus Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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