· Private foundation
The Kaminski Foundation
Its FY2026 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $25,000 |
| NYC BALLET SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| JULIARD | $25,000 |
| PENN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BAUM SCHOOL OF ART | $10,000 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| CIS OF EASTERN PA | $10,000 |
| DAVINCI SCIENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK | $5,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK7× · 2017–2026 · $239k · revenue +601%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC4× · 2023–2026 · $150k · revenue +32%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY4× · 2020–2024 · $142k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SOSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +140%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN TECH ALUMNI FOUNDATION 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kaminski Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kaminski Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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