· Public charity
Kennedy Family Foundation Inc
The kennedy family foundation, inc.
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.
The 6 grants below total $165,667 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $308,169 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $142,502 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN VIANNEY | $60,000 |
| SONNENTAG AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC | $34,167 |
| FORWARD FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| STEVE STRICKER AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| PROJECT 1649 | $7,200 |
| CASA OF ROCK COUNTY | $6,800 |
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 (FY19–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +11% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SSSTEVE STRICKER AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +326%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $192k · revenue +923%
- GIGOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC4× · 2017–2021 · $81k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- SAST ALBERT THE GREAT PARISHone grant, 2019 · $49k
- AFAMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE DREAMS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SHSSM HEALTH CARE CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +16%
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.
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
Provide scholarships and assistance to students and faculty for the primary benefit of southwest wisconsin technical college.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
Wisconsin foundation united church of christ, inc. is a catalyst for positive change in the life of the united church of christ in wisconsin; promotes a culture of generosity; and connects people across the ucc in working for a more just…
New community shelter foundation, inc. is organized and operated for charitable, educational, religious, and scientific purposes exclusively for the benefit and support of the greater green bay community foundation, inc.
To provide grants to qualified charitable organizations as determined by the board of directors.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The mission of the madison rotary foundation is to work with the rotary club of madison to support its charitable activities, serve as a responsible steward of its resources, and ensure compliance with all regulations.
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God Is Faithful Temporary Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sonnentag Foundation Ltd. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
19 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. 19 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 Forward Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEVE STRICKER AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SONNENTAG FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 1649 INC ↗
- Who funds SSM HEALTH CARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS 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.
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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 Kennedy Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.