· Private foundation
The Kbk 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $1,076,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| METRO HOUSING BOSTON | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| BOSTON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $5,000 |
| KENT DENVER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $575k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +53% · 42% of their budget
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $850k · revenue +89%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $575k · revenue +38%
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SPENCER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PINE MANOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kbk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kbk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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