Delaware · Private foundation
The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc
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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 18 | $83k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $77k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $78k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $87k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $85k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $69k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $67k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $48k | 70% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Bird Rescue Center | $57,500 | 7 | 10% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $56,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Alight | $44,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $32,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $31,600 | 6 | 0% |
| National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Camfed USA Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Fe Raptor Center | $16,950 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Messing Family Charitable Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Anthony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc with peer funders
About The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc
- How much does The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc give?
- The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $82,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (17%), Civil Rights (13%), Animals (12%).
- Who are The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Bird Rescue Center ($58k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($56k), Alight ($44k).
- Does The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc 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 Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, Messing Family Charitable Foundation, Sonoma County Vintners Foundation.
- Where is The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc based?
- The Margaret and Jennifer Kress Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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