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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER$62,000
SMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC$15,000
ROSE ART MUSEUM AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$15,000
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC$15,000
WOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY BUILD IN$15,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS$15,000
NXTHVN$15,000
ART21 INC$10,000
SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY AND THEATER$10,000
TRIANGLE ARTS ASSOCIATION$10,000
PARRISH ART MUSEUM$10,000
THE SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM AND FOUNDATION$10,000
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION$10,000
THE CURRENT$7,500
GRID BOOKS$7,500
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $15k → 8%ROSE ART MUSEUM AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM: $10k → 11%PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $10k → 7%THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $200k → 28%THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $10k → 14%BRUCE MUSEUM INC: $15k → 9%NXTHVN: $15k → 12%WOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY BUILD IN: $15k → 14%VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC: $100k → 9%YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT: $10k → 10%BENNINGTON MUSEUM: $12k → 11%PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 7%THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY & ART M: $15k → 11%FINE ARTS WORK CENTTR IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $15k → 8%NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $10k → 17%THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $10k → 14%NXTHVN: $15k → 12%VERMONT STUDIO CENTER: $62k → 9%FINE ARTS WORK CEN6RTR IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $15k → 8%VERMONT STUDIO CENTER: $10k → 9%20 SUMMERS INC: $10k → 8%VERMONT STUDIO CENTER: $10k → 9%THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $100k → 17%THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT INC: $15k → 20%VERMONT STUDIO CENTER: $10k → 9%SANDGLASS CENTER FOR PUPPETRY AND THEATER: $10k → 11%THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT: $10k → 20%VERMONT STUDIO SCHOOL: $10k → 9%THE CURRENT: $13k → 9%INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK: $100k → 17%THE PAINTING CENTER: $10k → 17%SMACK MELLON STUDIOS INC: $15k → 20%ART21 INC: $10k → 17%TRIANGLE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 20%ART21 INC: $10k → 17%TRIANGLE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 20%BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER: $100k → 11%BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER: $16k → 11%BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER: $10k → 11%THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 17%BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER: $10k → 11%HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS & WRITERS INC: $10k → 17%HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10k → 11%HILLTOP MONTESSORI: $10k → 11%THE SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM AND FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
RI
VA
DC
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 30 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
46

Total granted

$1.1M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-3%

Still filing today

80%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NY
    NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
    3× · 2020–2022 · $205k · revenue +42%
  • VS
    VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $192k · revenue +112%
  • BM
    BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $146k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • EM
    EMILY MASON AND ALICE TRUMBULL MASON FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3.7M · revenue -65% · 83% of their budget
  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -20%
  • IP
    INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue 0%
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
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
2
Art Explorium
—
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
6
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
7
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

—
8
Lake Geneva Art Museum

art education

Arts & Culture
9
The Center for Contemporary Art

To provide a vibrant, contemporary cultural center through arts education, exhibitions and community outreach that will inspire creativity and enhance people's lives

Arts & Culture
10
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
11
Arts Letters and Numbers
Arts & Culture
12
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Print Center New York; the most unlike its peers is Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason 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

53 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. 53 of the 84 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
26/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMILY MASON AND ALICE TRUMBULL MASON FOUNDATION INC: $3,675,719 · PhilanthropyEMILY MASON AND ALICE TRUMBULL MASON FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC: $145,500 · Arts & CultureBRATTLEBORO MUSE…INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK: $100,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL PR…THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ELIZABETH FO…FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS WORK C…PAINTING CENTER INC: $39,100 · Arts & CultureTHE CURRENT INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNXTHVN INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+27 more: $289,200 · Arts & Culture+27 moreVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC: $192,000 · OtherVERMONT ST…ROSE ART MUSEUM AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherROSE ART M…TRIANGLE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $25,500 · OtherTHE SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM AND FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherRIVER GALLERY SCHOOL OF ART: $17,500 · Other+33 more: $202,500 · Other+33 moreTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC: $30,000 · EducationHILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationHIGH MOWING SCHOOL: $14,000 · Education+2 more: $8,500 · EducationNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $205,000 · EnvironmentTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentYoung Writers Project Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY BUILD INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$3,680,719Arts & Culture$783,800Other$492,500Education$277,500Environment$205,000Youth Development$31,000Community Improvement$15,000

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 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
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.

Vermont Council on th…The Vermont Community…The Windham Foundatio…Milton and Sally Aver…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Robert Lehman Foundat…Thomas Thompson TrustHelen Frankenthaler F…The Bay and Paul Foun…New England Foundatio…Hillman Family Founda…Vermont Humanities Co…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Vermont Folklife Center: 90% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On the Arts Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Hilltop Montessori School Inc: 5% of income from government
  • 20 Summers Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc: 1% of income from government
  • Landmark College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Nxthvn Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Theatre Adventure Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Wolf Kahn Foundation Inc?

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.

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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