Kadima Foundation

• The foundation has funded schools and universities, medical and research institutions, museums and arts bodies, Jewish community bodies and other charities, including capital campaigns and unrestricted organisational work, so a group working in those areas has a reasonable basis to ask.
• Most of its grants are modest: half of its 39 grants to organisations were $50,000 or less, and about 8 in 10 fall between $5,000 and $200,000, so a request in that range is realistic, though the largest grant was $800,000 and that band is typical rather than a ceiling.
• The filing says it accepts applications but gives no deadlines, and no prescribed form is required, so a concise letter is an appropriate way to approach it.
• The filing shows its grants mainly in California and New York, but it states no geographic focus, so that pattern describes past giving rather than a rule.
• Because 82% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had already funded, existing relationships appear to count for a great deal, though the filing does not say how first-time applicants fare.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• American Jewish University · to SUPPORT the Camp Alonim capital campaign
  $200,0002024 tax year
• New Roads School · To support the capital campaign
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Dunn School · Unrestricted
  $158,3332024 tax year
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · to SUPPORT the Molecular Twin Pancreatic Cancer PiLOT STUDY
  $125,0002024 tax year
• UCSF Foundation · To support the Gastrointestinal Malignancies Research fund
  $125,0002024 tax year
• Breakthrough T1D · Unrestricted
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Brick (LAXART) · Unrestricted
  $75,0002024 tax year
• Max 102 Foundation · Unrestricted
  $8,7442024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.