New Jersey · Private foundation
The James Kerney Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $254k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The James Kerney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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 | 25 | $254k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $204k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $140k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $73k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $158k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $157k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $210k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $240k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homefront Inc | $145,095 | 8 | 0% |
| Womanspace Inc | $123,100 | 6 | 1% |
| HomeWorks Trenton | $91,250 | 3 | 2% |
| TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc | $76,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Arm in Arm Inc | $75,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County | $67,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Fernbrook Environmental Education Center Inc | $37,250 | 3 | 7% |
| Paul Robeson Charter School | $33,705 | 2 | n/a |
| Capital Harmony Works Inc | $33,348 | 2 | 3% |
| Anchor House Inc | $30,100 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($572k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James Kerney 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Merancas Foundation Inc · Tenacre Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · FirstBank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Burke Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation
How this is measured
About The James Kerney Foundation
- How much does The James Kerney Foundation give?
- The James Kerney Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $253,665 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The James Kerney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Animals (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The James Kerney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Homefront Inc ($145k), Womanspace Inc ($123k), HomeWorks Trenton ($91k).
- Does The James Kerney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The James Kerney Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The James Kerney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Where is The James Kerney Foundation based?
- The James Kerney Foundation is based in NJ.
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