· Private foundation
Mary a & Raymond F Kennedy Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMANI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $4,411 |
| CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SHELTER | $3,661 |
| JUEGA COMO CAMPEON | $3,250 |
| HEAR INDIANA | $2,916 |
| INDY CONCERTS FOR A CAUSE | $2,915 |
| BIDEAWEE | $2,915 |
| BCAN | $2,915 |
| CILTI | $2,000 |
| MILE HIGH 360 | $2,000 |
| ACCESS FUND | $2,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TOThe Oaks Academy Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +53%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +18%
HEAR INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- ICINDIANAPOLIS CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $5k
BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +48%- CICENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Children's services
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. our focus is large-scale,…
Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Theraplay Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Virtu. 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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 37 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 The Oaks Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Juega Como Campeon ↗
- Who funds AMANI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HONDURAN CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds VIRTU ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BIDEAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INDIANA LAND TRUST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds TRUSTED MENTORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Mary a & Raymond F Kennedy Family 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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