New York · Private foundation
The Kaneff 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.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations The Kaneff Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 15 | $138k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $172k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $142k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $236k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $247k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $162k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $152k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $215k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taubman Museum of Art | $210,997 | 7 | 3% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| International Center of Photography | $77,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $73,750 | 7 | 0% |
| The Sapling Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pratt Institute | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc | $23,677 | 2 | 0% |
| Next for Autism Inc | $20,922 | 2 | 1% |
| Bay Area Lyme Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Project Lyme | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($786k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kaneff Foundation Inc 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Carilion Medical Center · The Ceres Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The Kaneff Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kaneff Foundation Inc give?
- The Kaneff Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $138,216 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kaneff Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (47%), Arts & Culture (24%), Education (9%).
- Who are The Kaneff Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Taubman Museum of Art ($211k), Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc ($80k), International Center of Photography ($78k).
- Does The Kaneff Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kaneff Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kaneff Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Kaneff Foundation Inc based?
- The Kaneff Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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