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John G Kennedy 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH SAV | $12,500 |
| ST JOHN'S CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ONE HUNDRED MILES | $7,500 |
| PACE | $7,000 |
| SCAD | $5,000 |
| UNION MISSION | $4,000 |
| ATLANTIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| FAMILY LEGACY | $3,000 |
| ST JOHNS CHURCH | $3,000 |
| RIVER OAKS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN THE DEVINE | $2,500 |
| GREEN MELDRIM HOUSE | $2,500 |
| 450 BULL ST FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| 450 BULL STREET FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SCDS | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HSHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +52%
- OHOne Hundred Miles Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +65%
- TMTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
- UKUVA KAPPA KAPPA GAMMAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- VAVIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Atlanta history center seeks to connect people, history, and culture to build a stronger community. through exhibitions, collections, historic houses, gardens, archives, educational school tours, public programs, and digital and virtual…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Fka River Oaks Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 166 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds One Hundred Miles Inc ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Congaree Foundation ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES' GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE AND ALICIA GREGORY FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA RIVER OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KEEPERS OF HISTORIC GREEN-MELDRIM HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Hodge Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · The Adler Family Foundation Inc · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc · United Way of the Coastal Empire · Jolly Foundation Inc · Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation · The Brenneman Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Rosalie S Morris Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John G Kennedy Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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