Ohio · Private foundation
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.
- $464k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Malcolm E Kenney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $464k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $175k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $150k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $34k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Daily Dose of Reading | $85,000 | 3 | 55% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $66,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Cleveland Zoological Society | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohio Aerospace Institute | $58,625 | 1 | 0% |
| Open Doors Inc | $53,100 | 3 | 0% |
| The Holden Arboretum | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Cleveland | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Parallax Advanced Research Corporation | $29,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Museum of Cleveland | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Daily Dose of Reading | $85,000 | 3 | 55% |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | $66,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Cleveland Zoological Society | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ohio Aerospace Institute | $58,625 | 1 | 0% |
| Open Doors Inc | $53,100 | 3 | 0% |
| The Holden Arboretum | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Cleveland | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Parallax Advanced Research Corporation | $29,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Museum of Cleveland | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minds Matter of Cleveland Ohio Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Great Lakes Museum of Science Environment and Technology | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Argonaut | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Musical Arts Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($235k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Malcolm E Kenney Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Malcolm E Kenney Foundation
- How much does Malcolm E Kenney Foundation give?
- Malcolm E Kenney Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $463,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Malcolm E Kenney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (22%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Malcolm E Kenney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cleveland Museum of Natural History ($90k), Daily Dose of Reading ($85k), Cleveland Museum of Art ($66k).
- Does Malcolm E Kenney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Malcolm E Kenney Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Malcolm E Kenney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, Treu Mart Fund.
- Where is Malcolm E Kenney Foundation based?
- Malcolm E Kenney Foundation is based in OH.
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