· Private foundation
Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
- $250k+1 grant · $570k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND | $569,900 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES | $102,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 6%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DRDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC5× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
- NANATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE6× · 2019–2025 · $763k · revenue +43%
- UOUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation3× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- EMEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INCone grant, 2019 · $4.0M · revenue +1% · 47% of their budget
- IDINTERNATIONAL DISABILITY ALLIANCEone grant, 2019 · $210k
- MIMASSCHALLENGE INCone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -40%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds MASSCHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph P Kennedy Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Association of University Centers On Disabilities: 34% of income from government
- Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
- Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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