How much does The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation give?

The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $66,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Religion (18%), Education (18%).

Who are The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Howard School Inc ($35k), Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc ($33k), Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc ($30k).

Does The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, Fletcher Foundation Inc, Allyn Family Foundation Inc.

Where is The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation based?

The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation is based in FL.

The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation

The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$48kReligion$43kEducation$43kArts & Culture$41kHealth$35kHuman Services$31kYouth Development$3kHousing & Shelter$500Other$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $21k
$10k–50k3 grants · $45k

$2,400

Median grant

States reached

$15k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER	$25,000
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION	$10,000
GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION	$10,000
THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SKANEATELES	$6,000
WEST LAKE ART CONSERVATION CENTER	$4,000
ONONDAGA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION	$3,000
JOHN D BARROW ART GALLERY	$2,400
SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION	$2,000
FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST	$2,000
SKANEATELES HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$800
BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$500
SKANEATELES LIBRARY ASSOCIATION	$400
BOCA GRANDE PRESCHOOL	$250

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$224k · 18 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$224k

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%

+49%

Still filing today

72%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

BG
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +243%
FO
FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
2× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +289%
SL
SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +103%

Funded once

EM
EVERSON MUSEUM
one grant, 2018 · $8k
TP
THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +32%
MN
MARY NELSON YOUTH CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $3k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Lake George Land Conservancy Inc

Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.

Environment

Fort Lauderdale Historical Society Inc

History fort lauderdale brings the stories of our diverse community to life through educational experiences, cultural exhibits, research, and preservation for future generations.

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Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.

Environment

The Great Lakes Historical Society

The great lakes historical society is dedicated to the preservation of great lakes history.

—

Bocilla Islands Conservancy Inc

To promote the conservation of green space in the bocilla islands.

Animals

Lake Erie Islands Historical Society

Preserve, interpret and educate our community and our visitors on the rich history of the lake erie islands.

Environment

Gardiner Library Board of Trustees

The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.

Education

Boca Raton Historical Society Inc

Conservation, curatorial and educational programs which diseminate information regarding the history of the city of Boca Raton, Florida.

Arts & Culture

The San Juan Preservation Trust

Land conservation and education in the san juan archipelago.

Environment

The Saint Augustine Historical Society

To preserve and educate the public about the history of St. Augustine.

Arts & Culture

Southwest Florida Land Preservation Trust Inc (Swflpt)

The SWFLPT was formed to preserve and protect SW Florida's natural lands.

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Historical Society of Topsail Island Nc

The historical society of topsail island is dedicated to the collection, preservation and promotion of the history of the greater topsail island area

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Skaneateles Lake Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$81,500Education$39,150Philanthropy$32,500Human Services$31,000Environment$30,500Arts & Culture$27,000Health$1,500Housing & Shelter$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Fletcher Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Dwight W Winkelman Foundation Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Vick Foundation Inc · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bruce a & Linda H Kenan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home