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· Public charity
The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy
To support religious, educational, and charitable purposes in Texas.
$17M
Granted FY2024
388
Grants
1
Communities
$1.9M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
repairs renovationconstruct parishsearenovation repairsconstruct churchdym dioceseconservation
2019
repairs renovationscatholic churcdiocesystemsbrocatholic socialevangelization catec
2020
infrastructure impactcatholic schlretreatsyouth activitieseducatofffull-time
2021
rectory repairsacquisition airconditioning unitparish raymondvillemichael's catholicmountedcovid
2022
formdept catholicstreamingfloorfacility maintenancemaintenance youthcontrol
2023
tuition kmfdistributionselectricsalarygenerationmentoringcompassion
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 388 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k266 grants · $5.9M
- $50k–250k105 grants · $7.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.3M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$495M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Diocese of Corpus Christi$1,918,015
- Chancery Office of Corpus Christi$600,000
- San Agustin Parish Hall$252,800
- Texas Catholic Conference$250,000
- Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission$250,000
- Archdiocese of San Antonio - Hope for the Future$200,000
- Mother Teresa Shelter$200,000
- Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi$200,000
- MissionParish Support - Diocese of Laredo$200,000
- Office of Evangelization and Catechesis - Diocese of Victoria$154,000
- Parish & School Accounting Services - Diocese of Corpus Christi$150,000
- Catholic Schools of Fort Worth$150,000
- Christ the King Diocesan Schools$140,000
- Immaculate Conception School - Rio Grande City$118,000
- Diocese of Laredo - Facilities & Maintenance$105,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$111M · 396 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
396 repeat relationships — 243 still active in FY2024, 153 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
396
136
Total granted
$111M
$3.7M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+46%
+33%
Still filing today
37%
36%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $870k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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
- MTMother Teresa Shelter of Corpus Christi8× · 2017–2024 · $960k · revenue +3% · 33% of their budget
- CSCHRISTUS Spohn Health System Found4× · 2017–2020 · $850k · revenue +11%
- PDProyecto Desarrollo Humano - Penitas5× · 2017–2023 · $425k · revenue +182% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- DODiocese of Victoriagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +81%
- SHSacred Heart Church McAllenone grant, 2023 · $178k
- SASt Anthony Catholic Stu Ctrone grant, 2018 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Christus Health Southeast Texas
Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the teachings of the catholic church.
Health
2
Catholic Charities of the Texas
Catholic charities of the texas panhandle supports the value and dignity of human life by working to promote self-worth and independence, and strives to meet the ever-changing needs of the community.
Human Services
3
San Antonio Christian School
Provide students pre-k to 12th a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith & service.
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4
Good Samaritan Center of San Antonio
Good samaritan center of san antonio, texas is a non-profit institution whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change, supporting individuals and families through excellent community services to overcome the impact of poverty.…
Human Services
5
Casa of South Texas Inc
Child Advocacy
Human Services
6
El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission
El Buen Samaritano is an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas committed to recognizing the dignity of all by ensuring access to health care education and essential needs that lead to healthy productive and secure lives.
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7
Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Inc
Catholic charities/community services odessa, inc is a social service agency in the diocese of san angelo, tx catholic charities under the diocesan bishop accepts the responsibility to promote the physical
Human Services
8
Central Texas Children's Home
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems
Human Services
9
Caritas of Austin
Caritas of austin's mission is to prevent and end homelessness in greater austin.
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10
Christus Santa Rosa Health Care Corporation
Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the health ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.
Health
11
Planned Parenthood South Texas
To provide family planning and sexual healthcare services.
Health
12
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas
Not-for-profit, community owned, health care facilities with spiritual values, dedicated to providing high quality health services in a christian environment.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of and the most unlike its peers is St Edwards University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.2%1/572
the rest of the field
14%
10,182/72,826
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.
05the grantee network
223 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
85
Early backer (in before they grew)
218/223
Grantees still filing
172/223
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$104,604,571Human Services$4,036,975Education$2,756,000Health$2,727,000Philanthropy$837,000Arts & Culture$501,000Food & Nutrition$398,500
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.
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.
Scanlan FoundationTX143.7× affinity78 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Scanlan Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Love Builds Hope Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Ed Rachal Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and · Strake Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Tres Grace Family Foundation · Christus Health · Earl C Sams Foundation Inc
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 organisation The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Proyecto Desarrollo Humano - Penitas.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 205709276 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Proyecto Desarrollo Humano - Penitas, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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