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Dscw Kennedy Foundation at a glance

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Dscw Kennedy Foundation

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$475k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Animals$2.0MHealth$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$25k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $43k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
  • $250k+2 grants · $775k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$475,000
MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER$300,000
SEALIFE RESPONSE REHABILITATION & RESEARCH (SR3)$100,000
COLORADO HORSE RESCUE$50,000
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$50,000
INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE$50,000
ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL$42,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CATALINA ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $25k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
WY
SD
OH
CA
CO
TN
NC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 8 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$2.2M
$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

88%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TW
    THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +14%
  • IB
    INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • CH
    COLORADO HORSE RESCUE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF RANGE & AMERICAN MUSTANG
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • CH
    CHASING HORSES WILD HORSE ADVOCATES
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -51% · 38% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
2
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
3
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
4
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
5
Platte Ranch Forever Home Sanctuary
Animals
6
Wildhorse Ranch Rescue Inc

Mission: To save animals from abuse, neglect, slaughter, and premature death and provide a safe place for them to live for the remainder of their lives through adoption or sanctuary.

Animals
7
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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8
California Coastal Horse Rescue

To help end neglect and abuse to horses

Animals
9
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
10
2ND Hand Ranch and Rescue

Helping injured abandoned animals. Sanctuary for old dogs & horses. Rehabilitation of wildlife. Education to the public on animals and nature.

Animals
11
Blue Horse Sanctuary
Animals
12
Border Horse Slaughter Rescue

Prevent cruelty to animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horse Haven of Tennessee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 25 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES: $1,101,695 · AnimalsMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELESTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $175,000 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE: $100,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUECOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $100,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO HORSE RESCUESR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research: $100,000 · AnimalsSR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research+6 more: $140,000 · Animals+6 moreELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL: $619,034 · OtherELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONALINSTITUTE OF RANGE & AMERICAN MUSTANG: $75,000 · OtherINSTITUTE OF RANGE & AMERICAN …Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+7 more: $105,000 · Other+7 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $475,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTH…REINS OF HOPE: $40,000 · Human ServicesJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $25,000 · Human ServicesHORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 · Youth Development
Animals$1,716,695Other$849,034Philanthropy$475,000Human Services$65,000Youth Development$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES: $1,101,695 over 3y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $475,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $100,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHASING HORSES WILD HORSE ADVOCATES: $50,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetHORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetREINS OF HOPE: $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPAWPARENT INC: $25,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTHE CLOUD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCATALINA ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE HAVEN: $15,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetFREEDOM RIDE RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Good CharitiesNetwork for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Good CharitiesWA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Good Charities · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dscw Kennedy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dscw Kennedy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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