Massachusetts · Private foundation
Ethel 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.
- $708k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Ethel Kennedy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $673k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $576k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $571k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $612k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $470k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $423k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $343k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $269k | 17% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown University | $507,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Salisbury School Inc | $150,926 | 6 | 0% |
| Speak Up Africa Inc | $128,100 | 8 | 6% |
| The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc | $123,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Orange County School of the Arts | $115,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Hotchkiss School | $98,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hampshire College Trustees | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Room to Read | $72,540 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for the Children of the Californias | $65,300 | 6 | 3% |
| The Learning Alliance Inc | $63,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 114 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ethel Kennedy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 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: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The San Diego Foundation · Olivia Delacruz Foundation Inc · James Ford Bell Foundation · John's Island Community Service League Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Leah and Alain Lebec Foundation Inc · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego
How this is measured
About Ethel Kennedy Foundation
- How much does Ethel Kennedy Foundation give?
- Ethel Kennedy Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $708,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ethel Kennedy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), International (9%), Health (8%).
- Who are Ethel Kennedy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($507k), Salisbury School Inc ($151k), Speak Up Africa Inc ($128k).
- Does Ethel Kennedy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ethel Kennedy Foundation 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 Ethel Kennedy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Indian River Community Foundation Inc, The John's Island Foundation Inc, Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ethel Kennedy Foundation based?
- Ethel Kennedy Foundation is based in MA.
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