Colorado · Private foundation
Kennedy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,282
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $612k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Kennedy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $16k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $17k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $56k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $53k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $18k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $18k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Grace Community Development Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Giving Heart Englewood | $34,282 | 2 | 26% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope College | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| North Park University | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Michigan University | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eckerd College | $1,279 | 1 | 0% |
| Baker College | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($209k), not named here.
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About Kennedy Foundation
- How much does Kennedy Foundation give?
- Kennedy Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $15,648 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kennedy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Community Improvement (16%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are Kennedy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Legacy Grace Community Development Corporation ($50k), Giving Heart Englewood ($34k), The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College ($6k).
- Does Kennedy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kennedy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Kennedy Foundation based?
- Kennedy Foundation is based in CO.
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