New York · Private foundation
The Kat Foundation
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.
- $857k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Kat Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k 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 | 20 | $856k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $619k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $577k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $482k | 59% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $411k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for Public Service Inc | $466,250 | 4 | 1% |
| The George Washington University | $427,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Richmond | $416,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lsu Health Sciences Foundation in Shreveport | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Randolph-Macon College | $215,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $94,370 | 3 | 0% |
| Duke University | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Up Giving Village Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Spence School | $46,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($693k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kat Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kat Foundation
- How much does The Kat Foundation give?
- The Kat Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $857,368 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Kat Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Philanthropy (14%), Public Benefit (7%).
- Who are The Kat Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Partnership for Public Service Inc ($466k), The George Washington University ($428k), University of Richmond ($416k).
- Does The Kat Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kat Foundation 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 Kat Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Kat Foundation based?
- The Kat Foundation is based in NY.
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