· Private foundation
The Kandell Fund
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $20,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $20,000 |
| NYC POLICE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| THE FUND FOR PARK AVE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,000 |
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NEW YORK CITY | $3,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $2,500 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $2,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL - NY | $1,800 |
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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 32% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +14%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +58%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- DSDALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- YPYOUNG PEOPLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -91%
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 national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 110 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 NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENA MUSIC FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society 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 New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kandell Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kandell Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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