Texas · Private foundation
Kengena 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.
- $420k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Kengena Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $420k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $307k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $285k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $302k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $198k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| David & Ellen Ross Scholarship Foundation | $98,000 | 5 | n/a |
| My Refuge House | $64,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Eis Family A38 | $50,000 | 2 | 14% |
| East-West Ministries International | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Crisis Ministries | $45,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Many Helping Hands | $45,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Kaleo Collective | $40,000 | 4 | 47% |
| Peak Hope Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 90% |
| Intellichoice Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Barnabas & Co | $30,000 | 3 | 8% |
Show all 41 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| David & Ellen Ross Scholarship Foundation | $98,000 | 5 | n/a |
| My Refuge House | $64,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Eis Family A38 | $50,000 | 2 | 14% |
| East-West Ministries International | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Crisis Ministries | $45,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Many Helping Hands | $45,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Kaleo Collective | $40,000 | 4 | 47% |
| Peak Hope Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 90% |
| Intellichoice Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Barnabas & Co | $30,000 | 3 | 8% |
| The Navigators | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends for Kids | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Glorious Generation Foreign Mission | $25,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Route 21 | $25,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Mentoring Urban Students & Teens | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Proskuneo Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 3% |
| In My Shoes Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lifechange Housing Associates Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Targeted Aquaponic Growth | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| At Jacob's Well | $18,000 | 3 | 5% |
| One World Surgery | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Peters Canyon Elementary School Pto | $15,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Old Union Elementary School PTO | $15,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Families Forward | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gospel Coalition Inc | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Streetside Showers Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 2% |
| New Song Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Point for Charity Association | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Let the Little Children Come to Me Inc | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| OneWorld Health | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Promise of Irving | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Messengers of Mercy | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Serve Hope International | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Grace | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Solidarity | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Operation Mobilization | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cleburne Eubanks Intermediate School PTO | $5,000 | 2 | 6% |
| All Nations Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Claddagh Fund Charities Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kengena Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Kengena Foundation
- How much does Kengena Foundation give?
- Kengena Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $420,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Kengena Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Education (17%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Kengena Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: David & Ellen Ross Scholarship Foundation ($98k), My Refuge House ($64k), Eis Family A38 ($50k).
- Does Kengena Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kengena Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kengena Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, Celanese Foundation.
- Where is Kengena Foundation based?
- Kengena Foundation is based in TX.
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