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Kenyon Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Kenyon Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$293kRecreation & Sports$98kPhilanthropy$47kHousing & Shelter$14kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$100,000
THE FIRST TEE$12,500
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$10,000
MARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$7,578
RICKY WOODRING MEMORIAL FUND$5,000
SAN MIGUEL ACADEMY$2,500
SAINT JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,400
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,500
USO$500
MAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION$250
CHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE$250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $3k → 17%NEIGHBORS LINK: $500 → 9%OSSINING FOOD PANTRY: $258 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
ID
NY
NV
IA
PA
CT
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 20 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

$1.5M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+26%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
  • MA
    MARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • SM
    SAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH
    3× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • WR
    WESTCHESTER RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +68%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

27 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. 27 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bowdoin College: $1,100,000 · EducationBowdoin College+4 more: $26,109 · EducationNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN WESTCHESTE…THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $200 · PhilanthropyTHE FIRST TEE: $65,000 · OtherTHE FIRST …UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherUC BERKELE…SAINT JUDES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $8,255 · OtherSAINT JUDE…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $6,000 · OtherRICKY WOODRING MEMORIAL FUND: $5,000 · Other+22 more: $19,864 · Other+22 moreTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $23,500 · Recreation & SportsMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthCHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP INC: $1,250 · HealthMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $750 · HealthGREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST: $500 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $250 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 · HealthBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $500 · Human ServicesSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Human ServicesOssining Food Pantry: $258 · Human ServicesWESTCHESTER RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$1,126,109Philanthropy$275,200Other$144,119Recreation & Sports$23,500Health$6,250Human Services$5,258Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowdoin College: $1,100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTEE OFF FORE LIFE INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $9,609 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetSAN MIGUEL ACADEMY OF NEWBURGH: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKING HEADWAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPPAQUA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MENTAL HEALTH OF NEW YORK INC F/K/N MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF WEST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $330 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOssining Food Pantry: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $200 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.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Mutual of America Fou…The New York Communit…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY15.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Kenyon Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenyon Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 50 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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