· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k34 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $640k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lafayette College | $1,510,000 |
| United Way of Morris County | $75,000 |
| Iraq Star Inc | $65,000 |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundati | $50,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $50,000 |
| USO | $50,000 |
| United Way of Sussex County | $50,000 |
| Salvation Army - National Headquart | $50,000 |
| Morristown Memorial Health Foundati | $50,000 |
| Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund | $50,000 |
| Community Theatre | $50,000 |
| Marian Sutherland Kirby Library | $50,000 |
| Cure Alzheimers Fund | $50,000 |
| Villanova Univ College of Nursing | $45,000 |
| Wilkes University | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
110 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2019, 43 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +28%
- GSGARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC6× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +22%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +227%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- LTLITTLE THEATRE OF WILKES-BARREone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +25%
- PBPALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +103%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
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How this is measured
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds America's Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AP Kirby Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Center for Prevention & Counseling: 4% of income from government
- Independence for Veterans Inc: 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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