· 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.
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 $10k49 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA | $50,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| O'GORMAN GARDEN INC | $35,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC | $25,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $25,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $25,000 |
| SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| HORIZONS NEW YORK CITY | $25,000 |
| WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| THE NONZERO FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS COUNCIL LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| REPRESENT US EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
82 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% 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
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +53%
- SASAINT ANN'S SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $282k · revenue +36%
Feeding America6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CICIVIC INFLUENCERS INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -52%
- IFINDEPENDENT FILM PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $50k
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INCone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue -7%
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.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 101 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 THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds O'GORMAN GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Youth Service America ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NONZERO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC INFLUENCERS INC ↗
- Who funds Feel Good Action ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS COUNCIL LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kite Key Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kite Key Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Studio Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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