New York · Private foundation
The Kilkea Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $96,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations The Kilkea Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 12 | $108k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $125k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $57k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $70k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $159k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $66k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $66k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $65k | 47% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Michael's College | $641,935 | 9 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Le Moyne College | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Suny Cortland | $6,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Lawrence University | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Bonaventure University | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Marist University | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Michael's College | $641,935 | 9 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Le Moyne College | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Suny Cortland | $6,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Lawrence University | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Bonaventure University | $3,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Marist University | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nazareth University | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Wells College | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cayuga Community College | $2,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Syracuse University | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chapman University | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St John Fisher University | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Paul Smiths College | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Utica University | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Seattle University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Becker College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hartwick College | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ithaca College | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart University Incorporated | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Yale University | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cazenovia College | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kilkea 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: Tuw Alice Koon FBO Scholastic Fund · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Wilkes-Desmond Educational Foundation · Gazin Norbert L Education Pfdn 101-0628960 · Jessie H Baker Educational Fund · The Greater Norwich Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Kilkea Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kilkea Foundation Inc give?
- The Kilkea Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $109,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kilkea Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Arts & Culture (0%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
- Who are The Kilkea Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saint Michael's College ($642k), Cornell University ($16k), Le Moyne College ($13k).
- Does The Kilkea Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kilkea Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kilkea Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tuw Alice Koon FBO Scholastic Fund, Central New York Community Foundation Inc, Wilkes-Desmond Educational Foundation.
- Where is The Kilkea Foundation Inc based?
- The Kilkea Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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