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The William and Elizabeth Kahane Family Foundation at a glance

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The William and Elizabeth Kahane Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$785kArts & Culture$168kInternational$120kReligion$76kPhilanthropy$14k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PHILLIPS ACADEMY -ADDISON GALLERY: $15k → 10%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%AISH CENTER: $40k → 17%APERTURE: $50k → 20%RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $10k → 9%IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES: $20k → 7%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $165k → 14%AISH CENTER: $10k → 17%APERTURE: $30k → 20%TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $125k → 14%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%APERTURE: $30k → 20%NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20k → 17%APERTURE: $30k → 20%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $45k → 14%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5k → 17%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $30k → 14%CHARITABLE DONATIONS UNDER 5000: $5k → 17%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $10k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $70k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$554k · 7 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$554k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+31%

Still filing today

43%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2021–2023 · $120k · revenue +30%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $120k · revenue +4%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    3× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • IS
    IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • PA
    PHILLIPS ACADEMY -ADDISON GALLERY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TA
    TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -50%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
2
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
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
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $549,942 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONNew York University: $120,000 · EducationNew York UniversityOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $85,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE+1 more: $10,000 · EducationAPERTURE: $140,000 · OtherAPERTUREAISH CENTER INC: $50,000 · OtherAISH CENTER INCCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL O…PHILLIPS ACADEMY -ADDISON GALLERY: $15,000 · OtherPHILLIPS ACADEMY -ADDIS…CHARITABLE DONATIONS UNDER 5000: $14,000 · OtherCHARITABLE DONATIONS UN…+1 more: $1,050 · OtherThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $120,000 · InternationalThe America…IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$764,942Other$245,050International$120,000Arts & Culture$33,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $549,942 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION: $1,050 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $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.

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.

National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 William and Elizabeth Kahane Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William and Elizabeth Kahane Family 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s 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 · 0–15%
    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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    How do I get to The William and Elizabeth Kahane Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The William and Elizabeth Kahane Family 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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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