· Private foundation
The Kohl Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $761k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS | $50,000 |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| GRACE | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $30,000 |
| MISSION ARLINGTON | $25,000 |
| NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| THRIVE WOMEN'S CLINIC | $25,000 |
| GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER | $25,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| AUSTIN STREET SHELTER | $25,000 |
| SUMMIT MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| GATEWAY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +33% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +118%
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +98%
- DLDALLAS LIFE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- GDGreater Dallas Youth Orchestra Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +24%
- MIMOAZ ISRAEL MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $5k
- GHGOOD HOPE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The mission of Dallas Theological Seminary is to glorify God by equipping godly servant-leaders for the proclamation of His Word and the building up of the body of Christ worldwide.
Davar audio bibles' mission is to create opportunities for oral learners to fully experience the bible in their home language.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 72 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 JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD BASKET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds TACA INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Irving Symphony Orchestra Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PSALMS OF DAVID ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds Irving Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Monastery ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Sarah and Ross Perot Jr Foundation · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Hoblitzelle Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kohl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kohl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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