· Private foundation
Kenny's Kids
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $600k
- $250k+2 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNY'S KIDS | $11,115,979 |
| PONTIKES FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,769,497 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $175,000 |
| SOC - F | $100,000 |
| THE STATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BAYHILL HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE OF SEDONA | $18,000 |
| WE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| SEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| TWLOHA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $497k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M 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
- ABALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM5× · 2017–2021 · $705k · revenue +32%
- UOUniversity of Chicago Medical Center4× · 2017–2020 · $700k · revenue +101%
- WCWe Care Services For Children6× · 2017–2022 · $242k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +29%
- FTFOUNDATION TO BE NAMED LATERone grant, 2017 · $67k
- ACALAMEDA COUNTY KIDS HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.
The mission of the tucson family food project is to provide meals for children who are struggling with food insecurity, while teaching them how to cook food for themselves in their own homes.
Neuroimmune foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to dramatically accelerating physician education of pans, pandas, and encephalitis; significantly improving outcomes for individuals impacted by these disorders; providing…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Mikid improves the behavioral health and wellness of children and youth through a family-centered approach.
Think big for kids is breaking the cycle of poverty by providing middle and high school students with career opportunities, mentorship, and job readiness training to excel in today's workforce.
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Arizona Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kennys Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 54 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 KENNYS KIDS ↗
- Who funds PONTIKES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXIAN BROTHERS HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
- Who funds We Care Services For Children ↗
- Who funds Mariposa DR Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CORE EDUCATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds The Monkey Tail Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds SEDONA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS JET TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Hope House of Sedona ↗
- Who funds Yavapai Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds SEDONA ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
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: Kennys Kids · Arizona Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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's Kids 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.
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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