California · Nonprofit
THE KUHN FOUNDATION
THE KUHN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,248,615 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($2,408,139). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $774k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $7.0M
What The Kuhn Foundation does
Program
Direct project support - "closer to truth" television program.closer to truth (ctt) is an educational and scientific project that is improving the quality of science and high-level knowledge discourse in the united states, primarily through a national public television series and a major associated website. Ctt brings together leading scientists, scholars and artists to debate latest discoveries and their impact on the human condition. Series creator robert lawrence kuhn hosts a series of spontaneous and intimate conversations with some of the world's most esteemed experts that combine leading-edge science and informed intuition to address the fundamental issues of our times.
$1,831,253 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $9.3M (−17%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $195k → $565k.
From the IRS filings of THE KUHN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
THE KUHN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE KUHN FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
THE KUHN FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE KUHN 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE KUHN 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 THE KUHN FOUNDATION?
- THE KUHN FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,248,615 to it, the largest being JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION ($2,408,139). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KUHN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,248,615 in grants to THE KUHN FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KUHN FOUNDATION?
- JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,408,139 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KUHN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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