The Kavli Foundation

EIN 770560142 Private Foundation

Glendora, CA 91740 |(424) 353-8800

https://kavlifoundation.org
Total Given 2016–2024
$235.5M
928 grants · $26.2M avg/year
based on 9 yrs of IRS 990-PF records on file
$10M+/yr
major funder
capacity
$75K
typical mid grants · $26K–$167K
grant size
40%
supporter · 125/315 multi-year
repeat
$604.1M
Assets (2024)
315
Distinct Recipients

Focus Areas

Education Arts & Culture Environment Human Services Community Development

Application Information

Accepts Unsolicited Proposals No. Preselected Only
Contact Person ANDREW C FABIAN
Phone (424) 353-8800
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Financial Trends

Giving Over Time

Total Assets Over Time

View financial data as table
YearTotal GivingTotal AssetsRevenueGrants
2016 $22.5M $617.8M $38.7M 118
2017 $24.9M $652.1M $52.1M 126
2018 $24.3M $630.2M $30.6M 121
2019 $1.5M $660.5M $59.7M 7
2020 $56.7M $637.5M $3.7M 146
2022 $51.3M $588.3M $27.2M 143
2023 $27.6M $595.6M $8.3M 136
2024 $26.7M $604.1M $31.4M 131

Grant Size Distribution

Based on 928 grants on record

Minimum
$100
25th Pctl
$26K
Median
$75K
Average
$254K
75th Pctl
$167K
Maximum
$11.2M

Geographic Distribution

Texas Counties Served

2.6% of US grants · Rank #8 of 25 states $4.7M across 18 grants 4 of 254 counties

Top 4 counties

  1. 1 Harris 14 grants · $4.5M
  2. 2 Travis 2 grants · $108K
  3. 3 Bexar 1 grant · $55K
  4. 4 Dallas 1 grant · $50K

Officers & Directors

Grants Awarded (928 total)

Purpose
Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Discovery at Oxford (Kavli Insd) Oxford, None $11,150,000 KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR NANOSCALE DISCOVERY AT OXFORD PHASE I/II 2020
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD $9,000,000 KAVLI INSTITUTE NDI PHASE III 2022
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago Chicago, IL $7,000,000 KICP PHASE III 2020
University of California San Francisco Foundation San Francisco, CA $7,000,000 KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR FUNDAMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE 2022
The Chancellors Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford Cambridge, None $6,225,691 KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR NANOSCALE DISCOVERY AT OXFORD PHASE I/II 2022
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California San Santa Barbara, CA $5,000,000 KITP PHASE III-B 2020
The Board of Trustess of the University of Chicago Chicago, IL $5,000,000 KICP PHASE III 2022
Cornell University Ithaca, NY $4,200,000 KAVLI INSTITUTE AT CORNELL FOR NANOSCALE SCIENCE PHASE III 2022
Cornell University Ithaca, NY $3,800,000 KAVLI INSTITUTE AT CORNELL FOR NANOSCALE SCIENCE 2020
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford Univers Stanford, CA $3,000,000 2988 THE VIA PROJECT: THE MILKY WAY AS A DARK MATTER LABORATORY 2024
Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute at JHU Baltimore, MD $2,800,000 KAVLI NEUROSCIENCE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE PHASE I-II 2018
Kavli Institute for Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology Delft, None $2,561,400 KAVLI INSTITUTE INNOVATION AWARD 2023
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University Haidian District, None $2,395,000 2897 KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS AT PEKING UNIVERSITY 2024-2028 2024
Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute at UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA $2,235,418 KAVLI ENERGY NANOSCIENCE INSTITUTE PHASE I-II 2018
National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC $2,100,000 FRED KAVLI ENDOWMENT FUND 2020
National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC $2,100,000 FRED KAVLI ENDOWMENT FUND 2017
National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC $2,100,000 FRED KAVLI ENDOWMENT FUND 2018
The Rockefeller University New York, NY $2,083,334 KAVLI NEURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE 2017
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford Univers Stanford, CA $2,000,000 THE VIA PROJECT: THE MILKY WAY AS A DARK MATTER LABORATORY 2024
Kavli Neural Systems Institute at Rockefeller University New York, NY $2,000,000 KAVLI NEURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE PHASE I-II 2018
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD $1,973,333 KAVLI NEUROSCIENCE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE 2017
Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Discovery at Oxford (Kavli Insd) Oxford, None $1,850,000 KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR NANOSCALE DISCOVERY AT OXFORD PHASE I/II 2020
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT Cambridge, MA $1,828,000 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AT ASTRONOMYS FRONTIER: THE MIT KAVLI INSTITUTE AND THE U.S. EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE PROGRAM 2023
University of California Berkeley Foundation Berkeley, CA $1,772,916 KAVLI ENERGY NANOSCIENCE INSTITUTE 2016
University of California Berkeley Foundation Berkeley, CA $1,735,416 KAVLI ENERGY NANOSCIENCE INSTITUTE 2017

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