New York · Nonprofit
MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION
MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,329,078 to it, the largest being THE KOHLBERG FOUNDATION INC ($5,550,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation does
Mission
The foundation permanently preserves the work of gordon parks, makes it available to the public through exhibitions, books and electronic media, and supports artistic and educational activities that advance what parks described as "the common search for a better life and a better world ." the foundation's exhibition space presents exhibitions on gordon parks and other artists working within the themes of social justice, as part of the foundation's commitment to educating the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation collaborates with museums throughout the world to produce focused exhibitions on parks' works and publishes books. In addition, the foundation continues to catalogue and preserve the work of gordon parks.
$2,261,846 spent$1,840,357 earned by the program94% of program spendingThe foundation provides scholarship grants to students from partner institutions and fellowship grants to promising photographers, filmmakers, visual artists, writers and musicians working within the themes of social justice.
$142,500 spentof which $142,500 as grants6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,404,346.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $19M to $22M (+17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Peter W Kunhardt Jr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $1.2M.
14 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 87% · 2019 89% · 2020 47% · 2021 41% · 2022 40% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
39% of MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- Department of State$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION?
- MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,329,078 to it, the largest being THE KOHLBERG FOUNDATION INC ($5,550,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $10,329,078 in grants to MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION?
- THE KOHLBERG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 53 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing