New York · Private foundation
The Kirby Family 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.
- $198k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 45
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $152k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 47
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Kirby Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 42 | $122k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $138k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $155k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $212k | 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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civitella Ranieri Foundation Inc | $62,000 | 4 | 2% |
| University of Idaho Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dematha Catholic High School | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cec Artslink Inc | $39,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Key West Film Society Inc | $34,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Brooklyn Book Festival Inc | $27,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Key West Literary Seminar Inc | $22,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine | $18,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ali Forney Center Inc | $16,077 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kirby Family Foundation 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Algar Foundation · Moser Family Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Kirby Family Foundation
- How much does The Kirby Family Foundation give?
- The Kirby Family Foundation reported 45 itemized grants totaling $151,910, out of $198,433 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 47 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Kirby Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Education (11%), International (2%).
- Who are The Kirby Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Civitella Ranieri Foundation Inc ($62k), University of Idaho Foundation Inc ($40k), Dematha Catholic High School ($40k).
- Does The Kirby Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kirby Family 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 Kirby Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Kirby Family Foundation based?
- The Kirby Family Foundation is based in NY.
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