· Private foundation
Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of ROBERT A & MARIAN K KENNEDY CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER | $17,500 |
| FAITH FREEDOM LIFE | $10,000 |
| ST STEPHEN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $7,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ST BONIFACE SCHOOL | $3,992 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS | $3,000 |
| SERENITY RECOVERY NETWORK | $2,500 |
| HENRY HOSEA HOUSE | $2,500 |
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| NKU CHASE LAW SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MELANOMA KNOW MORE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 19 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +104%- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +152%
- ICINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +27%
- UOUC OCULAR ONCOLOGY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coverd Greater Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Faith Freedom Life. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 175 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 SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds Faith Freedom Life ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House ↗
- Who funds Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds Melanoma Know More ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Agnes Nordloh Charitable Trust · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Pfau Charitable 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 Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust 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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