Connecticut · Private foundation
Walter Kann 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.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $246k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Walter Kann Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $51k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $55k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $23k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $50k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $21k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $38k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building One Community Corp | $75,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| FRAXA Research Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Caroline House Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pelotonia | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Homes With Hope Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building One Community Corp | $75,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| FRAXA Research Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Caroline House Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pelotonia | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Homes With Hope Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Public Radio | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Walter Kann 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Walter Kann Foundation Inc
- How much does Walter Kann Foundation Inc give?
- Walter Kann Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Walter Kann Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (30%), International (13%).
- Who are Walter Kann Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Building One Community Corp ($76k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($25k), FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ($5k).
- Does Walter Kann Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter Kann 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 Walter Kann Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Walter Kann Foundation Inc based?
- Walter Kann Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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