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The Jerome P & Carol B Kenney Trust at a glance

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The Jerome P & Carol B Kenney Trust

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.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$31kEducation$31kAnimals$30kRecreation & Sports$29kEnvironment$25kArts & Culture$13kInternational$10kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$583k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center Inc$10,000
Harlem Academy$10,000
West Tisbury Library Foundation Inc$5,000
SOCIAL TEES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION INC$3,000
Jack Mental Health Advocacy Inc$2,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Jack Mental Health Advocacy Inc: $3k → 14%Jack Mental Health Advocacy Inc: $3k → 14%Jack Mental Health Advocacy Inc: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$158k · 14 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$158k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+1%

Still filing today

86%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +163%
  • MM
    MISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +46%
  • SM
    SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +244%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • KT
    KISS THE GROUND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • CH
    CARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +17%
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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
3
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
8
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Hill Neighbors 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

23 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. 23 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC: $18,000 · EducationMISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNI…HARLEM ACADEMY: $13,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYWEST TISBURY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationWEST TISBURY LIBRARY FOUNDA…Cornell University: $4,000 · EducationCornell UniversityMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $2,000 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $29,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSER…YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsYMCA of Martha's Vi…Individual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $5,000 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY L…Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $3,500 · OtherJACK MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY INC: $8,000 · OtherJACK MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERI…CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC: $2,500 · OtherTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $7,000 · OtherTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEMROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $5,000 · OtherCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC+3 more: $5,000 · Other+3 moreSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $17,000 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S M…VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentVINEYARD CO…SOCIAL TEES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION IN: $12,000 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 · InternationalKISS THE GROUND: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$49,000Recreation & Sports$36,000Other$69,000Environment$20,000Animals$12,000International$10,000Food & Nutrition$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL TEES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION IN: $12,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWEST TISBURY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJACK MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKISS THE GROUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Gretchen V & Samuel M…Tower Family Fund IncThe Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jerome P & Carol B Kenney Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jerome P & Carol B Kenney Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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