Tennessee · Private foundation
Kennedy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Kennedy Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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 | 14 | $2.3M | 64% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $16M | 62% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $158k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $2.7M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $902k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $912k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $904k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlanger Foundation | $5,872,000 | 6 | 71% |
| University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc | $3,920,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Houston Museum of Decorative Arts | $200,000 | 2 | 61% |
| Memorial Health Care System Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of the National World War II Memorial Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Skyuka Hall | $84,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Artsbuild | $36,300 | 3 | 1% |
| Friends of Special Children | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| United Way of Greater Chattanooga | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc | $24,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kennedy Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Hamico Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Tucker Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc
How this is measured
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About Kennedy Foundation Inc
- How much does Kennedy Foundation Inc give?
- Kennedy Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $2,262,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kennedy Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Health (24%), Education (16%).
- Who are Kennedy Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Erlanger Foundation ($5.9M), University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc ($3.9M), Houston Museum of Decorative Arts ($200k).
- Does Kennedy Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kennedy Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kennedy Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Hamico Inc, Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation.
- Where is Kennedy Foundation Inc based?
- Kennedy Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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