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Malcolm E Kenney Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $229k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $70,000 |
| OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE | $58,625 |
| GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| HOLDEN ARBORETUM | $50,000 |
| THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| MINDS MATTER CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| OPEN DOORS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CLEVELAND | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| DAILY DOSE OF READING | $20,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $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 (FY24–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY3× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +76%
- DDDAILY DOSE OF READING3× · 2023–2025 · $85k · revenue +35% · 55% of their budget
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART3× · 2020–2022 · $66k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PAPARALLAX ADVANCED RESEARCH CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +44%
- HFHOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- GLGREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Born from the collision of rhythm & blues, country, and gospel, rock & roll is a spirit that is inclusive and ever-changing. the rock & roll hall of fame celebrates the sound of youth culture and honors the artists whose music connects us…
Lake erie nature & science center educates and inspires each of us to understand, appreciate, and take responsibility for our natural world. serving more than 100,000 people each year with animal exhibits and programs, planetarium shows,…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Moca's mission- art now, in progress - embodies our nature as a living, adaptive platform for artistic experimentation, public exchange, and civic connection. our vision - artists & art lead us to the unfamiliar, where we open and connect…
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities through legal and policy advocacy, decision-maker accountability, and civic engagement.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
To enrich lives through modern and contemporary art.
The mission of cleveland leadership center (the organization) is to build a continuum of civic leaders committed to our community's excellence by serving as a catalyst for civic engagement. the organization achieves its mission by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DAILY DOSE OF READING ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds PARALLAX ADVANCED RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ARGONAUT ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · The Abington Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment 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 Malcolm E Kenney 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.
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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