Florida · Private foundation
The Kovner 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.
- $19M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2024
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 83
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $335M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Kovner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 80 | $19M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 83 | $18M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $17M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 75 | $25M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $24M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $23M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juilliard School | $22,497,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Success Academy Charter Schools Inc | $14,011,450 | 6 | 4% |
| The Carnegie Hall Corporation | $12,372,200 | 6 | 7% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $10,100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $7,795,000 | 5 | 3% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $5,150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund | $3,500,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $2,900,000 | 6 | 2% |
| New World Symphony Inc | $2,500,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc | $2,500,000 | 5 | 6% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kovner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Carson Family Charitable Trust · Charles Koch Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gates Foundation · The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · City Fund
How this is measured
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About The Kovner Foundation
- How much does The Kovner Foundation give?
- The Kovner Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $18,683,705 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 83 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Kovner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Arts & Culture (33%), International (8%).
- Who are The Kovner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Juilliard School ($22M), Success Academy Charter Schools Inc ($14M), The Carnegie Hall Corporation ($12M).
- Does The Kovner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kovner 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 Kovner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation, Donors Trust Inc.
- Where is The Kovner Foundation based?
- The Kovner Foundation is based in FL.
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