Koum Family Foundation

The Koum Family Foundation is a grantmaking foundation formed by WhatsApp co-founder and billionaire 1 Jan Koum that supports Jewish, pro-Israel, and left-of-center advocacy nonprofits. 2024 donor recipients include the Israel on Campus Coalition, the Hopewell Fund, and the Tides Center. 2 3

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3), Private Foundation
Ideological Alignment: None
Formation:

2015

President and CEO:

Yana Kalika

Founder:

Jan Koum

Location: Palo Alto, CA View on map
Tax ID: 47-5446562
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2024): Assets: $3,297,273,570 Revenue: $64,282,904 Expenses: $125,629,253

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    Activities

    The Koum Family Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation that has donated to Jewish and pro-Israel organizations including the Aleph Institute, the Birthright Israel Foundation, and the Israel on Campus Coalition. The Koum Family Foundation was founded in 2015 by Jan Koum, the billionaire founder of messaging app WhatsApp, which is owned by Meta as of 2026. 2 3

    The Koum Family Foundation was founded in 2015. 4

    Partnerships

    According to tax filings, as of 2024, the Koum Family Foundation contracted with philanthropic consulting firm Arabella Advisors for “project support.” In 2024, the Koum Family Foundation paid Arabella Advisors $550,103. 5

    Leadership

    According to tax filings, the director of the Koum Family Foundation is Jan Koum and the president is Yana Kalika. 6

    Jan Koum has an estimated net worth of $17.1 billion according to Forbes as of February 2026. Koum co-founded the messaging service WhatsApp in 2014, which was purchased by Facebook (or Meta as of 2026), in 2014 for $22 billion in cash and stock. Kopum was the CEO of WhatsApp and on the board of directors for Facebook until 2018. Before founding WhatsApp, Koum worked at Yahoo!. As of 2026, Koum invested through his firm Newlands, which holds nearly 10 million shares in Meta and supports technology startups. 1

    According to Inside Philanthropy, Koum is also allegedly the donor behind the K18n Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2022 with $1.65 billion that shares board officers with the Koum Family Foundation and is invested with the Koum Family Fund in Newlands Philanthropic, a branch of Koum’s investment firm Newlands. 2

    The president and CEO of the Koum Family Foundation is Yana Kalika. Kalika became the president and CEO in January 2022. Previously, she was the executive director of the Koum Family Foundation from July 2019 to December 2022. Before that, Kalika was a learning technologies manager, compliance manager, and business analyst at Genentech. 7

    Financials

    According to tax filings, in 2024, the Koum Family Foundation reported $64,282,904 in revenues, $125,629,253 in expenses, and $3,228,639,829 in assets. 8

    That same year, the Koum Family Foundation also made $22,705,000 in grants. Notable grants include $350,000 to the Aleph Institute, $2,000,000 to the American Friends of Sheba Medical Center, $1,200,000 to the American Friends of the Kiev Jewish Community, $700,000 to the American Israel Education Foundation, $2,000,000 to the Birthright Israel Foundation, $10,988,000 to the European Jewish Association, $2,000,000 to Hadassah: the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, $1,200,000 to the Hopewell Fund, $1,350,000 to the Israel on Campus Coalition, $1,000,000 to the Shalem Foundation, and $120,000 to the Tides Center. 3

    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2024 $3,297,273,570 $64,282,904 $125,629,253 View
    2023 $2,328,710,419 $27,776,631 $103,739,204 View
    2022 $1,401,385,958 $-6,597,016 $111,874,734 View
    2021 $2,231,760,897 $172,961,534 $94,936,036 View
    2020 $2,010,566,070 $59,411,015 $109,057,254 View

    Prior year filings: 2019, 2015

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    Yana KalikaPRESIDENT$430,300

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $532,940,571
    • Number of Grants: 645
    • Number of Recipients: 211

    Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $10,000,0002021 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $7,500,0002020 STANFORD UNIVERSITYGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,538,0002024 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,481,5002023 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,452,2472022 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,450,0002024 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,336,5002023 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,060,0002022 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,000,0002021 STANFORD UNIVERSITYGENERAL CHARITY
    $5,000,0002020 Israel Healthcare Foundation IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $4,994,5422020 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $4,863,2202020 European Jewish Association IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $4,000,0002021 Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $3,750,0002023 Stanford University Board of Trustees of the Leland StanfordGENERAL CHARITY
    $3,410,0002020 Russian Speaking Jewish Community of SF Bay AreaGENERAL CHARITY
    $3,120,0002021 Jewish Community Center of MoscowACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT EDUCATION IN JEWISH COMMUNITIES
    $3,000,0002020 Jewish Community Center of MoscowGENERAL CHARITY
    $3,000,0002021 American Committee for Shaare ZedekGENERAL CHARITY
    $3,000,0002021 Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $3,000,0002021 Friends of Ir David IncGENERAL CHARITY
    $3,000,0002021 Jewish Community Center of MoscowACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT EDUCATION IN JEWISH COMMUNITIES
    $3,000,0002020 American Committee for Shaare ZedekGENERAL CHARITY
    $2,900,0002021 Shalva Israel Assocfor Care & Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (ra)GENERAL CHARITY
    $2,500,0002024 Oshman Family Jewish Community CenterGENERAL CHARITY
    $2,335,0002020 Friends Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical CenterGENERAL CHARITY

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    References

    1. “Jan Koum.” Forbes. Accessed February 9, 2026. https://www.forbes.com/profile/jan-koum/.
    2. Kavate, Michael. “Tech Philanthropy Watch: WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum Has a New $1.5 Billion Fund.” Inside Philanthropy. September 3, 2024. Accessed February 9, 2026. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/tech-philanthropy-watch-whatsapp-founder-jan-koum-has-a-new-1-5-billion-fund.
    3. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Koum Family Foundation. 2024. Part XIV, Section 3. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/475446562/202513179349103856/full
    4. “Koum Family Foundation.” Inside Philanthropy. Accessed February 9, 2026. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/find-a-grant/grants-k/koum-family-foundation.
    5. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Koum Family Foundation. 2024. Part VII, Section 3. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/475446562/202513179349103856/full
    6. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Koum Family Foundation. 2024. Part VII, Section 1. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/475446562/202513179349103856/full
    7. “Yana Kalika.” LinkedIn. Accessed February 9, 2026. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yana-kalika-86046b1/.
    8. Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990). Koum Family Foundation. 2024. Parts I and II. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/475446562/202513179349103856/full