Illinois · Private foundation
The Kamin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $41k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,254
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $218k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Kamin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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 | 14 | $40k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $30k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $27k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $27k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $120,228 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sarasota Opera Association Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| All Faiths Food Bank Inc | $1,550 | 4 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $420 | 2 | 0% |
| Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Sarasota Concert Association Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| Sarasota Film Society Inc | $300 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $200 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $120,228 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sarasota Opera Association Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| All Faiths Food Bank Inc | $1,550 | 4 | 0% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $420 | 2 | 0% |
| Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Sarasota Concert Association Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| Sarasota Film Society Inc | $300 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| International Women Associates Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kamin Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Kamin Foundation
- How much does The Kamin Foundation give?
- The Kamin Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $40,799 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Kamin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Philanthropy (6%), Religion (4%).
- Who are The Kamin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grant Park Orchestral Association ($120k), Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill ($5k), Sarasota Opera Association Inc ($3k).
- Does The Kamin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kamin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kamin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Kamin Foundation based?
- The Kamin Foundation is based in IL.
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