· Private foundation
The Catherine Kennedy Home Foundation
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: 86% of THE CATHERINE KENNEDY HOME FOUNDATION’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 $10k30 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ST MARY SOCIAL MINISTRY SISTER ISAAC | $24,000 |
| MOTHER HUBBARDS CUPBOARD | $20,000 |
| BREAD FOR LIFE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| SOUTHPORT OAK ISLAND INTERCHURCH FELLOWSHIP | $15,000 |
| PENDER COUNTRY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| WILMINGTON AREA REBUILDING MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| PENDER ADULT SERVICES | $9,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF RALEIGH | $9,000 |
| THE LORDS FOOD PANTRY (BRUNSWICK INTERCHURCH COUNCIL) | $9,000 |
| CCCC FOOD PANTRY | $8,000 |
| DIAPER BANK OF NC | $8,000 |
| BRUNSWICK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD & CLOTHES PANTRY | $7,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 15 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- PAPender Adult Services Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +1%
- 2I2Share Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +12%
- CFCAPE FEAR CLINIC INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SMST MARY SOCIAL MINISTRY SR ISAAC CENTERone grant, 2024 · $22k
- YYWCAone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
The mission of the Christian Community Caring Center, aka 4Cs Food Pantry, is to serve Christ by providing healthy, nutritious food to our neighbors in need in Eastern Pender County, NC.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear, Inc (CCLCF) serves as a health and social care hub, working in partnership with community organizations to improve health outcomes for Medicare, Medicaid, uninsured and privately insured individuals…
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
Jesus commanded, "love your neighbor as yourself." (mark 12:31) our ministry provides loving service to the poor and hungry. the organization will operate an ecumenical food pantry to serve those who need food assistance in york county and…
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pender County Christian Svcs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight of the Cape Fear Area Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 82 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 Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds PENDER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds Pender Adult Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds 2Share Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
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: Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Loweth-Alvord 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 The Catherine Kennedy Home 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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