· Private foundation
Kennedy Family Foundation Attn Susan Spinello
Its FY2021 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, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER | $20,000 |
| NATHAN AND ESTHER PELZ HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL | $7,000 |
| KARTEMQUIN FILMS | $5,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL GIRLS INC | $1,000 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SHALVA | $100 |
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 (FY17–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HMHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC4× · 2018–2021 · $81k · revenue +17%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +25%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- HEHOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k
THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEEone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +17%- CYCHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +22%
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.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The mission of hillel at washington university in st louis is to be a catalyst for jewish life among college students in st louis. we connect students with one another and with jewish culture and traditions through service and social…
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
Yad vashem usa foundation (the organization) is dedicated to support the memorialization and awareness of, and education regarding, the holocaust, as currently overseen, supervised and conducted by yad vashem, the holocaust martyrs and…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The foundation was established exclusively for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago, a not-for-profit organization.
To enrich the lives of jewish student undergraduate & graduate students, so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
To provide quality education to all jewish children in both the secular and judaic areas.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 18 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 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds YEA Highland Park Inc ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kennedy Family Foundation Attn Susan Spinello funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kennedy Family Foundation Attn Susan Spinello. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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