California · Private foundation
The Kite Key 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.
- $513k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Kite Key Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k 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 | 61 | $456k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $792k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $487k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $489k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $502k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $561k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $370k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $385k | 15% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The City and Country School Inc | $1,140,000 | 8 | 1% |
| O'Gorman Garden Inc | $290,900 | 9 | 16% |
| Saint Ann's School | $282,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $255,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Youth Service America | $200,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $167,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Nonzero Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 9 | 8% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($638k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kite Key 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: The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Rodney L White Foundation Inc · The James Family Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Aspen Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kite Key Foundation
- How much does The Kite Key Foundation give?
- The Kite Key Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $513,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kite Key Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Kite Key Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The City and Country School Inc ($1.1M), O'Gorman Garden Inc ($291k), Saint Ann's School ($282k).
- Does The Kite Key Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kite Key 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 Kite Key Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Kite Key Foundation based?
- The Kite Key Foundation is based in CA.
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