· Private foundation
Keith V Kiernan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $810k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $105,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $105,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $95,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $95,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| WATERORG | $75,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $75,000 |
| GRAMEEN FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| BERGEN FAMILY CENTER | $55,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| SANERGY | $30,000 |
| THE BAIL PROJECT | $30,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $30,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $30,000 |
| THE MALALA FUND | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 19% of Keith V Kiernan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $544k · revenue +70%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC5× · 2017–2021 · $415k · revenue +81%
- BFBERGEN FAMILY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $371k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- AALIGHTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +33%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +45%
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.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Isf advisors is the leading strategic and financial advisory group committed to mobilizing capital for a more sustainable, equitable, and productive global food system.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Technoserve's mission is to fight poverty by helping people build regenerative farms, businesses, and markets that increase incomes.
Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANERGY INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Keith V Kiernan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keith V Kiernan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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