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Kenny Family Foundation
The KENNY FAMILY FOUNDATION provides charitable support to a variety of other charities and causes in and around delaware.
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 7 grants below total $35,001 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $312,374 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $277,373 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 $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION | $10,600 |
| DELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC | $10,000 |
| EASTER SEALS - DELAWARE & MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE | $4,061 |
| BVSPCA | $4,000 |
| WPD - POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF WILMINGTON | $3,300 |
| THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE | $2,500 |
| CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $540 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 88% of your 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 +100% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- KNKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +52%
- BVBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +100%
- DWDELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- HTHOLY TRINITY (OLD SWEDES) CHURCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -32%
- AFACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.
To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.
To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.
The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.
To make a substantial contribution to delaware's journalism community and to the citizens of delaware by delivering original, in-depth, delaware-specific news and commentary from all three counties.
None
Mission is to bid recruit & host regional/national sporting events at all levels of competition for the purpose of utilizing sports facilities in the state. thereby enhancing the economic development of the state, generally improving…
To reduce the devastating long-term effects that child abuse has on children, their families and society through immediate, coordinated, child focused services, education, and advocacy.
To create theatre of the highest professional quality in delaware and thereby enrich the vitality of the area through artistic programming, education, and community service.
To promote new business and assist existing businesses in delaware county, pa to create employment opportunities
Provide:(1)educational programs regarding grantmaking effectiveness and other grantmaking best practices; (2)a platform for information sharing and networking among grantmakers; (3)facilitation of information exchanges between grantmakers,…
To be the leading advocate for delaware's children. we provide creative prevention and treatment programs that meet the changing needs of families. we serve dependent, neglected, and abused children and their parents. we provide programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church Foundation Inc. 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 67 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY TRINITY (OLD SWEDES) CHURCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP DELAWARE BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Welfare Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Wilmington University Inc · The Wawa Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco 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 Kenny Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delaware Center for Justice — 73% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Kalmar Nyckel Foundation — 14% of income from government
- Delaware Wrestling Alliance Inc — 13% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Special Olympics Delaware Inc — 3% 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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