Minnesota · Private foundation
Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable
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.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 16 | $173k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $210k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $182k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $135k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $97k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $139k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Community Food Bank | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pony Express Museum Inc | $63,618 | 3 | 5% |
| Pivotal Point Transitional Housing Inc | $53,400 | 6 | 1% |
| Heartland Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sisters of Solace | $44,225 | 6 | 6% |
| Interfaith Community Services | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Joseph Symphony Society Inc | $21,532 | 4 | 3% |
| Friends of the Park | $20,000 | 1 | 96% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of San Antonio | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($422k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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: Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · The Depriest Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · Heartland Regional Medical Center · Helen N Poston Charitable Trust · Spratt Leah Charitable Trust · The Moya Family Foundation · Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr · Gertrude & Doyle Norris Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable with peer funders
About Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable
- How much does Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable give?
- Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable reported 16 grants totaling $173,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Human Services (17%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Second Harvest Community Food Bank ($70k), Pony Express Museum Inc ($64k), Pivotal Point Transitional Housing Inc ($53k).
- Does Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable 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 Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust, Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable based?
- Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable is based in MN.
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