Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $672k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $569,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $569,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 | 2 | $672k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $103k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $222k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $335k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $328k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $429k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $4.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc | $4,000,000 | 1 | 47% |
| Disability Rights Fund Inc | $1,038,600 | 5 | 4% |
| National Association of Councils on Deve | $762,500 | 6 | 16% |
| Association of University Centers on Disabilities | $133,333 | 2 | 2% |
| Masschallenge Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New America Foundation | $102,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Building Tomorrow Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($210k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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.
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How this is measured
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About Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation
- How much does Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation give?
- Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $672,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (70%), Health (14%), International (8%).
- Who are Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Inc ($4.0M), Disability Rights Fund Inc ($1.0M), National Association of Councils on Deve ($763k).
- Does Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation based?
- Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation is based in DC.
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