Maryland · Private foundation
The Kay Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 188
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 188
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 1%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $5.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $26,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 190
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $86M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 1% of the organizations The Kay Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 184 | $5.4M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 188 | $5.3M | 1% |
| FY2022 | 190 | $5.8M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 183 | $4.7M | 78% |
| FY2018 | 78 | $1.4M | 78% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $385k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $776,205 | 4 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $612,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc | $409,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc | $237,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Social Service Agency | $229,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc | $205,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $195,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $191,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $186,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $186,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 182 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kay Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 178 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ina Kay Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Nora Roberts Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Robert I Schattner Foundation Inc aka Schattner Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Kay Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kay Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Kay Family Foundation Inc reported 188 itemized grants totaling $5,556,250, out of $6,616,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 190 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Kay Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (10%), Human Services (9%), Environment (4%).
- Who are The Kay Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Anti-Defamation League ($776k), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($612k), Jewish Foundation for Group Homes Inc ($409k).
- Does The Kay Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 1% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kay Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kay Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Ina Kay Foundation Inc, United Way of the National Capital Area.
- Where is The Kay Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Kay Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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