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Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family 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.

$264k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 39
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$993k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving34$264k59%
FY202436$232k44%
FY202327$150k52%
FY202228$159k57%
FY202139$234k67%
FY202038$249kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$253kHealth$161kFood & Nutrition$157kCivil Rights$114kEnvironment$107kHousing & Shelter$78kEducation$70kHuman Services$69kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 42 grantees
All grantees of Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
High Country News$68,00041%
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$60,00030%
Village Health Partnership$41,00043%
Denver Rescue Mission$40,18320%
The Wild Animal Sanctuary$20,00020%
Stages of Freedom$15,00025%
North Fork Valley Public Radio Inc$14,03052%
Bicycle Colorado$11,00030%
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition$10,00011%
Amputee Coalition of America Inc$10,0001n/a
Rocky Mtn Ski Instructors Ed Founda$10,00011%
Colorado Healing Fund$10,00010%
New Era Colorado Foundation$10,00010%
Conservation Colorado$10,00010%
Fountain Valley School of Colorado$7,00030%
Domino Service Dogs$6,00025%
Western Resource Advocates$5,53340%
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence$5,00010%
Four Winds American Indian Council$5,00016%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$5,00010%
Third Way Center Inc$5,00010%
Warren Village Inc$5,00010%
Adaptive Adventures$5,00010%
Food Bank of the Rockies$5,00010%
Colorado Village Collaborative$5,00010%
Prairie Protection Colorado$2,0002n/a
Denver Homeless Out Loud$2,0001n/a
UpRoot Colorado$1,56030%
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum$1,55010%
Washington State University$1,3501n/a
The Learning Council$1,00020%
Colorado Academy$1,00010%
Denver Food Rescue$1,00010%
Community Radio Project Inc Ksjd$52020%
Wheat Ridge 2020 Inc$51620%
National Organic Coalition Inc$50010%
Nfria-Wserc Conservation Center Inc$5001n/a
Grand Mesa Nordic Council Inc$50010%
Charity Navigator$50010%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$35010%
Blue Sage Center for the Arts$25010%
West Elk Mountain Rescue$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 88 recipients with no EIN on record ($885k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHigh Country News: $68,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVillage Health Partnership: $41,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $40,183 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStages of Freedom: $15,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNorth Fork Valley Public Radio Inc: $14,030 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBicycle Colorado: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetColorado Cross Disability Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRocky Mtn Ski Instructors Ed Founda: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Healing Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetConservation Colorado: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFountain Valley School of Colorado: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDomino Service Dogs: $6,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $5,533 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFour Winds American Indian Council: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThird Way Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWarren Village Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdaptive Adventures: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Village Collaborative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpRoot Colorado: $1,560 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetProprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: $1,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Learning Council: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Food Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Radio Project Inc Ksjd: $520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWheat Ridge 2020 Inc: $516 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Organic Coalition Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Mesa Nordic Council Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Sage Center for the Arts: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO38.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Kampe Family Foundation · Redline · Kenneth Kendal King 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.

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About Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation

How much does Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation give?
Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $264,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: High Country News ($68k), Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($60k), Village Health Partnership ($41k).
Does Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family 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 Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Colorado Health Foundation.
Where is Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation based?
Jay P K Kenney Foundation The Kenney Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 130 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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