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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.

$312k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$75kRecreation & Sports$32kAnimals$25kHealth$23kReligion$16kCrime & Legal$10kCommunity Improvement$10kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $35,001, the rows itemized in this filing. The $312,374 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $277,373 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE DELAWARE: $2k → 10%BVSPCA: $6k → 6%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE DELAWARE: $2k → 10%BVSPCA: $4k → 6%THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%BRANDYWINE SPCA: $5k → 6%THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%BRANDYWINE SPCA: $5k → 6%HOLY TRINITY OLD SWEDES CHURCH FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 10%BRANDYWINE SPCA: $5k → 6%THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN INC: $10k → 10%THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $6k → 10%DELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5k → 10%DELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5k → 10%KEEP DELAWARE BEAUTIFUL: $5k → 10%THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $5k → 10%WPD - POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF WILMINGTON: $3k → 10%MINISTRY OF CARING: $3k → 10%THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE: $3k → 10%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 10%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $9k → 10%DELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 10%DELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 10%DELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC: $3k → 10%COLONIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%EASTER SEALS - DELAWARE & MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE: $4k → 10%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 10%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $540 → 10%CANAAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $540 → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE: $3k → 10%FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 7 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$140k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+11%

Still filing today

86%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalAnimalsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KN
    KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +52%
  • BV
    BRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA
    5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +100%
  • DW
    DELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOLY TRINITY (OLD SWEDES) CHURCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -32%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • AF
    ACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Delaware Advancement Corporation

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.

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2
Delaware Prosperity Partnership Inc

To lead the state of delaware's economic development efforts.

Community Improvement
3
Delaware Center for Health Innovation Inc

The organization develops, facilitates, and oversees the implementation of collaborative efforts aimed at transforming the delivery of health care services in delaware.

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4
Delaware Public Media Corporation

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Delaware Performing Arts Center Inc

None

Arts & Culture
6
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
7
Delaware Sports Commission Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Children's Advocacy Center of Delaware

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.

Human Services
9
Delaware Theatre Company

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Delaware County Economic Development Corporation

To promote new business and assist existing businesses in delaware county, pa to create employment opportunities

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11
Philanthropy Delaware Fka Delaware Grantmakers Association

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,…

Philanthropy
12
Child Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $61,127 · OtherKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATIONHOLY TRINITY (OLD SWEDES) CHURCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,276 · OtherHOLY TRINITY (OLD SWEDES) CHURCH FOUNDATION INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC: $8,715 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INCCOLONIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $4,800 · OtherFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $5,000 · OtherKEEP DELAWARE BEAUTIFUL INC: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $11,395 · Other+4 moreBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $25,144 · AnimalsBRANDYWINE VA…DELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC: $23,000 · EducationDELAWARE WRE…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WI…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY DELAWARE: $4,135 · HealthCANCER SU…EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $4,061 · HealthEASTER SE…GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $13,375 · Arts & CultureACTION FOR DELAWARE'S CHILDREN: $10,000 · Community ImprovementDELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$114,313Animals$25,144Education$23,000Health$18,196Arts & Culture$13,375Community Improvement$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION: $61,127 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $25,144 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE WRESTLING ALLIANCE INC: $23,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $13,375 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY TRINITY (OLD SWEDES) CHURCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,276 over 1y, 13% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DELAWARE INC: $8,715 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP DELAWARE BEAUTIFUL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $4,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY DELAWARE: $4,135 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC: $4,061 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF WILMINGTON INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINISTRY OF CARING INC: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Delaware Community Fo…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Longwood Foundation I…Wsfs Cares FoundationUnited Way of DelawareWelfare Foundation IncIncyte Charitable Giv…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Wilmington University…The Wawa Foundation I…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Anthony & Catheri…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenny Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenny Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kenny Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kenny Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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