· Private foundation
The Kohlberg Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of The Kohlberg Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Kohlberg Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 74 organizations, $19M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k22 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k51 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+22 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $3,000,000 |
| SPONSORS | $2,500,000 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE | $1,000,000 |
| SPONSORS | $900,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO SCHOOL OF LAW | $500,000 |
| HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC | $450,000 |
| HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC | $350,000 |
| SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $300,000 |
| THE MERSERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| PUBLIC CITIZENS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CIVIC NATION | $250,000 |
| INDIVISIBLE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT | $250,000 |
| CIVIC NATION | $250,000 |
| INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS AND EDITORS INC | $250,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Kohlberg Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
100 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2022, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +206%- NINOVA INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INC3× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +259%
- SISPONSORS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +74% · 67% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCAMALOTTE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $16M · revenue +13%
- KFKovin Foundationone grant, 2017 · $16M
- CBCARDINAL BROOK TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $16M · revenue +7% · 72% of their budget
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.
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How this is measured
117 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. 117 of the 150 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.
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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 · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Cardinal Brook Trust · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kohlberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kohlberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sponsors Inc: 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Biodiversityworks Inc: 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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