How much does The Koll Family Foundation give?

The Koll Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $92,671 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Koll Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Housing & Shelter (16%), International (16%).

Who are The Koll Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: World Central Kitchen Inc ($36k), International Rescue Committee INC ($33k), Some Inc ($32k).

Does The Koll Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Koll Family 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 Koll Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Endowment Foundation.

Where is The Koll Family Foundation based?

The Koll Family Foundation is based in MD.

The Koll Family Foundation

The Koll Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Koll Family 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.

$93k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$97kHousing & Shelter$83kInternational$83kHealth$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$29kFood & Nutrition$28kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $68k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$527k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL PARK TRUST	$15,171
RISING STAR OUTREACH	$10,000
PROPUBLICA	$5,000
CREW	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD	$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$5,000
NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS LAW CENTER	$3,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE	$3,000
THE GROUND TRUTH PROJECT	$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$3,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES	$3,000
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN	$2,000
SOME	$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$449k · 32 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$449k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+49%

Still filing today

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue ×11
IR
International Rescue Committee INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +81%
SI
SOME INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +30%

Funded once

IS
Investigative Studios Incgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +135%
TA
THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
SF
SAMU FIRST RESPONSE
one grant, 2022 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International

Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International

Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science

Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mary House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

22/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$253,585International$118,996Human Services$51,000Environment$25,171Food & Nutrition$23,000Education$20,000Health$19,500

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Koll Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Koll Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The camps

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By state

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