Washington · Private foundation
The Kirchner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $249k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Kirchner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 16 | $73k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $71k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $72k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $62k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $56k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $45k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $58k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $46k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $71,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lower Columbia College Foundation | $52,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts | $33,750 | 8 | 2% |
| Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Saint Frances Cabrini Charitable Services | $18,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Lower Columbia School Gardens | $13,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Junior League of Lower Columbia | $12,300 | 9 | 2% |
| FISH of Cowlitz County | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Project Uplift | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cascade Medical Team | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $71,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Lower Columbia College Foundation | $52,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts | $33,750 | 8 | 2% |
| Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Saint Frances Cabrini Charitable Services | $18,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Lower Columbia School Gardens | $13,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Junior League of Lower Columbia | $12,300 | 9 | 2% |
| FISH of Cowlitz County | $12,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Project Uplift | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cascade Medical Team | $10,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Emergency Support Shelter | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Cowlitz County | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth and Family Link | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Health Partners | $5,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Children's Community Resources | $3,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Southwest Washington Wind Symphony | $3,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Bridge Meadows | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cabaret Follies of Lower Columbia | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Seattle Preparatory School | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community House on Broadway | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Longview Park Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kirchner 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: John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation · The Health Care Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way of Cowlitz County · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · Evans Venture Foundation · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · The Wollenberg Foundation · PeaceHealth · Central National Gottesman Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kirchner Foundation
- How much does The Kirchner Foundation give?
- The Kirchner Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $72,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kirchner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (23%), Religion (8%).
- Who are The Kirchner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ($72k), Lower Columbia College Foundation ($53k), Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts ($34k).
- Does The Kirchner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kirchner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kirchner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation, The Health Care Foundation, The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation.
- Where is The Kirchner Foundation based?
- The Kirchner Foundation is based in WA.
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