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Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$255k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
52%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$62,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 23
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$255k38%
FY202323$208k52%
FY202218$4.6M56%
FY202120$109k20%
FY202019$103k42%
FY201922$124k86%
FY201823$111kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.7MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$314kEnvironment$210kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
RI
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 56 grantees
All grantees of Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation Inc$3,675,719183%
New York Botanical Garden$205,00030%
The Hunter College Foundation Inc$200,00011%
Vermont Studio Center Inc$192,00052%
Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc$145,50059%
International Print Center New York$100,00016%
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts$100,00014%
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc$45,00031%
Painting Center Inc$39,10055%
The Current Inc$35,00052%
In-Sight Photography Project Inc$30,00053%
Nxthvn Inc$30,00021%
Smithsonian Institution$25,50040%
Hilltop Montessori School Inc$25,00040%
The Laundromat Project Inc$25,00021%
Studio Montclair Inc$22,00044%
The New England Youth Theater Inc$21,00041%
The Phillips Collection$20,00020%
Art21 Inc$20,00020%
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc$17,50030%
New York Studio School$16,00020%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$15,00020%
Smack Mellon Studios Inc$15,00012%
American Academy of Arts and Letters$15,00010%
Woonasquatucket Valley Community Build Inc$15,00011%
Bruce Museum Inc$15,00010%
Theatre Adventure Inc$14,00032%
High Mowing School$14,00030%
Bennington Museum Inc$12,00011%
Center for Art Law Inc$11,70035%
The Hatch Inc$10,00023%
Portland Museum of Art$10,00010%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society$10,00010%
Young Writers Project Inc$10,00016%
20 Summers Inc$10,00012%
Sandglass Center for Puppetry & Theater Research Ltd$7,50012%
Landmark College Inc$7,50010%
River Gallery School Inc$7,50011%
Dieu Donne Paper Mill Inc$7,00011%
Artichoke Dance Company Inc$5,00016%
Harlem Academy$5,00010%
Marlboro Foundation$5,0001n/a
The Childrens Storefront$5,00010%
Craft Emergency Relief Fund Inc$5,00010%
Studio Place Arts Inc$5,00012%
Five Myles Inc$4,00022%
Art in the Neighborhood$4,0002n/a
Vivaldi Project Inc$4,0001n/a
Marlboro Alliance$3,50022%
Portland Art Museum$3,00010%
MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio$3,00011%
Urbanglass New York Contemporary Glass Center Inc$3,00010%
Vermont Council on the Arts Inc$2,50010%
Vermont Folklife Center$2,50011%
The Aspen Institute Inc$1,00010%
Next Stage Arts Project Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation Inc: $3,675,719 over 1y, 83% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $205,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hunter College Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVermont Studio Center Inc: $192,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBrattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc: $145,500 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetInternational Print Center New York: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThe Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPainting Center Inc: $39,100 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetThe Current Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetIn-Sight Photography Project Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetNxthvn Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHilltop Montessori School Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetStudio Montclair Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetThe New England Youth Theater Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArt21 Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Studio School: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSmack Mellon Studios Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWoonasquatucket Valley Community Build Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBruce Museum Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTheatre Adventure Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetHigh Mowing School: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBennington Museum Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCenter for Art Law Inc: $11,700 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe Hatch Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Writers Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget20 Summers Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSandglass Center for Puppetry & Theater Research Ltd: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLandmark College Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiver Gallery School Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDieu Donne Paper Mill Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetArtichoke Dance Company Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHarlem Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Childrens Storefront: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCraft Emergency Relief Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStudio Place Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFive Myles Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMarlboro Alliance: $3,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 53.

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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.

Vermont Council on the Arts IncVT35.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Robert Lehman Foundation Inc · Thomas Thompson Trust · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Hillman Family Foundations · Vermont Humanities Council

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.

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Find your warmest path to Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc 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.

About Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc

How much does Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc give?
Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $255,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (6%).
Who are Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation Inc ($3.7M), New York Botanical Garden ($205k), The Hunter College Foundation Inc ($200k).
Does Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wolf Kahn 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 Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vermont Council on the Arts Inc, The Vermont Community Foundation, The Windham Foundation Inc.
Where is Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc based?
Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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