Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Kurian Foundation Trust
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.
- $746k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Kurian Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $742k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $648k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $528k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $544k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $662k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $417k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $343k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $323k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan Medical Outreach Ministries Inc | $1,265,000 | 5 | 78% |
| Carmel Mar Thoma Church Inc | $134,749 | 9 | n/a |
| Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine | $60,695 | 4 | 0% |
| UTEC Inc | $38,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fairfield University | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Compassionate Hearts Network Inc | $24,550 | 6 | 10% |
| Big Ed Org Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 55% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $10,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Western University of Health Sciences | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kurian Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kurian Foundation Trust
- How much does The Kurian Foundation Trust give?
- The Kurian Foundation Trust reported 27 grants totaling $745,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kurian Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (83%), International (5%), Education (5%).
- Who are The Kurian Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Samaritan Medical Outreach Ministries Inc ($1.3M), Carmel Mar Thoma Church Inc ($135k), Trustees of Saint Joseph's College Saint Joseph's College of Maine ($61k).
- Does The Kurian Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kurian Foundation Trust 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 Kurian Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Kurian Foundation Trust based?
- The Kurian Foundation Trust is based in MA.
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