New Jersey · Private foundation
AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2019
- 70
- Grants FY2019
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2019
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2019
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of New Jersey, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 71 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 41 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2019
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2019
- $1,510,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 66 to 68
- FY2017 to FY2019
- States reached, FY2019
- 17
- Total assets, FY2019
- $130M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2019, 6% of the organizations AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 68 | $2.6M | 6% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $1.0M | 6% |
| FY2017 | 67 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette College | $1,570,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Garden State Initiative Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 20% |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $350,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Honor Flight Inc | $325,000 | 7 | 2% |
| State Policy Network | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Marian Sutherland Kirby Library | $210,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Independence for Veterans Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 22% |
| The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Adam J Lewis Academy Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Ken W Davis Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · The Armstrong Foundation
How this is measured
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About AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc
- How much does AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc give?
- AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc reported 70 grants totaling $2,624,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 68 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
- What does AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Education (11%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lafayette College ($1.6M), Garden State Initiative Inc ($350k), Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation ($350k).
- Does AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2019, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Donors Trust Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated.
- Where is AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc based?
- AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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