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Warren B Kanders Foundation at a glance

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Warren B Kanders 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.

$1k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1k
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 2021.

Arts & Culture$93kReligion$34kHealth$33kEducation$25kEnvironment$15kPhilanthropy$3kHuman Services$2k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15k → 17%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $4k → 9%ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $3k → 6%AJC: $5k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC: $33k → 17%PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%TEMPLE SHOLOM: $30 → 9%ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $3k → 6%GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY: $1k → 17%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $28k → 6%GREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY: $1k → 17%ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $17k → 6%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $15k → 6%92ND STREET Y: $25k → 17%THE GOLDENBERG FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25k → 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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 5 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$59k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+99%

Still filing today

60%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHealthReligionEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • AA
    ASPEN ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2019 · $45k · revenue -49%
  • AR
    ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +29%
  • TS
    TEMPLE SHOLOM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +102%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +99%
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
Berggruen Institute
Education
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
12
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspen Art Museum; the most unlike its peers is Goldenberg Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASPEN ART MUSEUM: $44,850 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUMTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,400 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $6,000 · Arts & CultureANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTERThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $32,533 · HealthThe Hospital for S…THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · ReligionTHE YOUNG MEN…THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $24,750 · EducationTHE BREARLEY …AJC: $4,600 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM INC: $3,940 · OtherGOLDENBERG FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherGREENWICH VILLAGE SOCIETY: $2,000 · OtherASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $15,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$91,250Health$32,533Religion$25,000Education$24,750Other$15,540Environment$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $44,850 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $32,533 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $24,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $15,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Warren B Kanders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren B Kanders 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Warren B Kanders Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Warren B Kanders 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 13 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 2021, released 2021. 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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