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Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA | $125,000 |
| KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE MILKIN INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PENFED FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR | $25,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST (MS GIFT) | $25,000 |
| THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA | $20,000 |
| LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| LEAP CHARITIES INC | $20,000 |
| BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING INC (BCIU) | $20,000 |
| PALISADES WILL ROGERS 5 & 10K RUN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JESSE TREE OF IDAHO | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $793k 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
- BHBRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA4× · 2022–2025 · $958k · revenue +18% · 64% of their budget
- CHCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2023 · $740k · revenue +0% · 32% of their budget
- TATHINSPACE AFRICA4× · 2018–2021 · $594k · revenue +388% · 72% of their budget
Funded once
- CHCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION (C4 FOUNDATION)one grant, 2021 · $805k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $500k
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +19%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 193 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 LOS ANGELES SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds BRINGING HOPE TO THE FAMILY USA ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THINSPACE AFRICA ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAND OF THE FREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ROD DEDEAUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Panetta Institute for Public Policy ↗
- Who funds LEAP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds All Eagles Oscar Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VETS ADVOCACY 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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Pasadena Community Foundation
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 Wilson Charitable Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
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.
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