· Private foundation
Kathleen Kennedy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRANOFF INTERNATIONAL 2 PIANO FOUND | $60,000 |
| PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $50,000 |
| EDUCATE TOMORROW | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE | $45,000 |
| WOMENS FUND MIAMI-DADE | $30,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NW N CAROLI | $30,000 |
| AMOUR DANCE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY SOCCER ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| BUFFALO COVE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CTR | $10,000 |
| BACK TO SCHOOL FESTIVAL | $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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +117% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- TWThe Western Youth Network Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +521%
- WFWomens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $351k · revenue +145% · 28% of their budget
- TMTHE MURRAY DRANOFF FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +9% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- BRBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +57%
- DPDISCOVERY PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +28%
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.
Instills in its students a love of learning in a unique environment that emphasizes academic excellence, critical-thinking skills, and global perspectives.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.
At kid power, youth ignite their confidence and build the skills to thrive academically, strengthen their social-emotional wellness, and advocate for themselves and their communities.
The women's housing and economic development corp. (whedco) is a community development organization founded on the radically simple idea that all people deserve to live in healthy, vibrant communities. working in the south bronx, whedco…
Empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help women thrive in work and life.
The world privacy forum is dedicated to reimaging privacy in a digital era through ground-breaking, in-depth privacy research and consumer education of the highest quality. our vision is to empower people with the knowledge, rights, and…
The hope center for kids strives to faithfully inspire hope in the lives of youth and children through education, employability, collaboration and faith.
Kipp miami public schools seek to create and sustain high achieving and inspiring community schools that battle inequity by empowering students to develop the knowledge, skills, character strengths, and habits to thrive in college and…
Annie wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative and responsible citizens for a global society.
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
See schedule oto operate as a nonpublic school for grades pre-kindergarten through eighth. its' mission is to nurture each child's love of learning by engaging their intrinsic curiosity in nature, one another, play, and creative…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in and the most unlike its peers is Project Dance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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 The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MURRAY DRANOFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SANT LA INC ↗
- Who funds KRISTI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARMOUR DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI BOARDING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF MIAMI-DADE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAK HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO COVE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BACK 2 SCHOOL FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE NORMAN HUMANE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM 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 Miami Foundation Inc · Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc · The Kirk Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kennedy-Herterich Foundation · The High Country Charitable Foundation · Peacock Foundation Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc
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 Kathleen Kennedy Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in — 0% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% of income from government
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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