Colorado · Private foundation
The Dennis Kennedy 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.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 90%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,528
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $519k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 90% of the organizations The Dennis Kennedy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 | 7 | $52k | 86% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $53k | 90% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $14k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $14k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $30k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $27k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $26k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $27k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slow Food Co-Denver | $64,260 | 6 | 17% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $43,760 | 2 | 0% |
| The Street Dog Coalition | $10,290 | 1 | n/a |
| Wedontwaste Inc | $10,025 | 1 | 0% |
| Food for Hope | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lucky 13 Rescue Inc | $7,873 | 1 | 2% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grow Local Colorado | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Olive Crest | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Free to Breathe | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dennis Kennedy Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Dennis Kennedy Foundation
- How much does The Dennis Kennedy Foundation give?
- The Dennis Kennedy Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $75,318 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dennis Kennedy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Health (23%).
- Who are The Dennis Kennedy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Slow Food Co-Denver ($64k), American Cancer Society Inc ($44k), The Street Dog Coalition ($10k).
- Does The Dennis Kennedy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dennis Kennedy Foundation 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 The Dennis Kennedy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Dennis Kennedy Foundation based?
- The Dennis Kennedy Foundation is based in CO.
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