Texas · Private foundation
The Kaneka Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $280k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,912
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,283
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $462k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations The Kaneka Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 19 | $280k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $75k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $29k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $106k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc | $57,283 | 1 | 1% |
| La Porte Education Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 6% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $38,451 | 4 | 0% |
| Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc | $34,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sea Turtle Conservancy | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pasadena Isd Education Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($139k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kaneka 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: Albemarle Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Wr Grace Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About The Kaneka Foundation
- How much does The Kaneka Foundation give?
- The Kaneka Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $279,507 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Kaneka Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (28%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Kaneka Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The University of Texas Foundation Inc ($75k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc ($57k), La Porte Education Foundation ($50k).
- Does The Kaneka Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kaneka Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kaneka Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albemarle Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Air Products Foundation.
- Where is The Kaneka Foundation based?
- The Kaneka Foundation is based in TX.
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