Maryland · Private foundation
The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $467k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $183k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $277k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $129k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $160k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism | $225,000 | 4 | 5% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $138,310 | 5 | 0% |
| The Good People Fund Inc | $82,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of the Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism | $80,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Friends of Arava the Institute Ltd | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nli USA Inc | $57,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Ogen Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology Ltd | $22,500 | 2 | 1% |
| American Friends of Tenufa Bakehila | $17,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Netzach Educational Network Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism | $225,000 | 4 | 5% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $138,310 | 5 | 0% |
| The Good People Fund Inc | $82,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of the Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism | $80,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Friends of Arava the Institute Ltd | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nli USA Inc | $57,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Ogen Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology Ltd | $22,500 | 2 | 1% |
| American Friends of Tenufa Bakehila | $17,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Netzach Educational Network Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| America Gives Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Roots | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Emunah of America Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sustainability Laboratory Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Society of the University of Haifa | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eli-American Friends of the Israel Association for Child Protection | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bnei David Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Ethiopian Jews Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kathryn Ames 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 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Shirley & William R Fleischer Family Foundation Inc · Seed the Dream Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc give?
- The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $466,810 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (76%), Food & Nutrition (6%), Education (4%).
- Who are The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism ($225k), American Friends of Leket Israel Inc ($138k), The Good People Fund Inc ($83k).
- Does The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc based?
- The Kathryn Ames Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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