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The Robert J Kahn Testamentary Foundation at a glance

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The Robert J Kahn Testamentary 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.

$785k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$370k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$3.3MEducation$1.2MScience & Tech$105kInternational$50kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
  • $250k+1 grant · $370k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PA$370,000
HOSPITAL OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$125,000
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE THE U OF PENN PARMECEK$100,000
BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL I PITMAN$50,000
SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE$35,000
CENTRASTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
MAX APRIL RESEARCH FUND (LORI)$20,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D (JDRF)$20,000
THE SONDER PROJECT$10,000
AMERICAN ASSOC FOR CANCER RESEARCH$10,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH$10,000
CHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINEF THE U OF PENN: $150k → 10%THE FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH: $25k → 14%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION NELSON INSTITUT: $35k → 10%CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (MARA): $25k → 6%THE FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH: $25k → 16%DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE THE U OF PENN: $120k → 10%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION (PEDIATRIC UROL: $25k → 10%CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE THE U OF PENN PARMECEK: $120k → 10%NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $40k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION (PEDIATRIC UROL: $25k → 10%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL I PITMAN: $50k → 6%DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE THE U OF PENN PARMECEK: $100k → 10%NYU LANGONE HEALTH OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $40k → 17%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL I PITMAN: $35k → 6%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL: $30k → 10%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PA: $370k → 22%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL I PITMAN: $30k → 6%SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE: $30k → 10%TRUSTEES OF UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $250k → 22%BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL I PITMAN: $30k → 6%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $230k → 22%TRUSTEES OF UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $200k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $200k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA (ABRAMS): $200k → 22%TRUSTEES OF UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $180k → 22%TRUSTEES OF UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF MEDICINE: $150k → 22%PERELMAN CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE: $150k → 22%HOSPITAL OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA: $125k → 22%HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LEVIN: $100k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA PENN MEDICINE: $50k → 22%HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE: $35k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE: $35k → 22%SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE: $35k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (DR C MILLER): $30k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE: $30k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE: $30k → 22%PENN MEDICINE ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY DEPARTMENT: $30k → 22%TRUSTEES OF UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF MEDICINE (: $150k → 22%JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE: $35k → 22%JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE: $50k → 22%JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE: $35k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 19 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
24

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+52%

Still filing today

26%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +8%
  • TS
    THE SONDER PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +75%
  • AA
    American Association for Cancer Research Inc
    3× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA (ABRAMS)
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • PC
    PERELMAN CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • DO
    DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINEF THE U OF PENN
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
8
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
9
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Robert J Kahn Foundation 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

15 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. 15 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $630,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF UNI OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEMDEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE THE U OF PENN PARMECEK: $220,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE THE U OF PENN PARMECEKTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA (ABRAMS): $200,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA (ABRAMS)JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE: $170,000 · OtherJEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGEHOSPITAL UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 · OtherHOSPITAL OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 · OtherPERELMAN CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE: $150,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF MEDICINEF THE U OF PENN: $150,000 · OtherBRYN MAWR HOSPITAL I PITMAN: $145,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHEIE EYE INSTITUTE: $130,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE THE U OF PENN: $120,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $120,000 · Other+21 more: $781,000 · Other+21 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,195,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 · HealthAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $30,000 · HealthCENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC: $25,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $20,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $20,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE SONDER PROJECT INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE ROBERT J KAHN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $5,000 · Environment
Other$3,116,000Education$1,275,000Health$175,000International$50,000Philanthropy$25,000Community Improvement$10,000Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,195,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SONDER PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBERT J KAHN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetCENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SONDER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds American Association for Cancer Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROBERT J KAHN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRASTATE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗

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.

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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 Robert J Kahn Testamentary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert J Kahn Testamentary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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Find your warmest path to The Robert J Kahn Testamentary Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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