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The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation

See Schedule OThe goal of the Foundation is to nurture and advance endeavors which contribute to the following core values: helping break the cycle of poverty; assisting people to help themselves; developing the Catholic faith; advancing spirituality; nurturing support and love for Catholic institutions; cultivating a passion for…

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
388
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$51MEducation$33MHuman Services$9.2MHousing & Shelter$5.4MHealth$4.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.6MCrime & Legal$2.6MYouth Development$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 388 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RecipientAmount
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
MissionParish Support - Diocese of Laredo$200,000
Mother Teresa Shelter$200,000
Catholic Charities of Corpus Christi$200,000
Archdiocese of San Antonio - Hope for the Future$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
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Foster Angels of South Texas: $25k → 20%CC of the Arch of Galv-Hou: $35k → 8%Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozan: $75k → 23%Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Ce: $75k → 23%Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center Inc: $75k → 23%Bishop Enrique S P Ozanam C: $75k → 23%Camp Aranzazu Inc: $40k → 17%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $75k → 16%Catholic Charities Archdioces: $70k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $60k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdioc: $55k → 16%Catholic Charities Galv-Hou: $50k → 16%Camp Aranzazu Inc: $40k → 16%Camp Aranzazu Inc: $40k → 16%Colonia Ministry Center: $80k → 27%Colonia Ministry Center - Mis: $80k → 27%Missionary Sisters of the IHM: $80k → 27%Colonia Ministry Center - Missiona: $80k → 27%Colonia Ministry Center - Missiona: $25k → 27%Missionary Sisters of the IHM: $25k → 27%Colonia Ministry Center: $25k → 27%Guadalupe Community Center: $32k → 16%Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA): $27k → 17%Young Women's Christian Association: $25k → 17%Foster Angels of South Texas: $25k → 17%Young Womens Christian Assoc: $25k → 17%Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA): $25k → 17%Mary McLeod Bethune Day Nursery Inc: $25k → 17%Mary McLeod Bethune Day Nursery Inc: $25k → 17%Mary McLeod Bethune Day Nursery I: $25k → 17%Mary McLeod Bethune Day Nursery: $25k → 17%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $40k → 17%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $35k → 17%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $35k → 17%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $35k → 17%Corpus Christi Metro Ministri: $35k → 17%Corpus Christi Metro Ministries: $25k → 17%Mission of Mercy Inc: $25k → 17%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$112M · 396 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

$112M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+27%

Still filing today

37%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $870k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +2%
  • CS
    Christus Spohn Health System Corporation
    4× · 2017–2020 · $850k · revenue +18%
  • PD
    PROYECTO DESARROLLO HUMANO
    5× · 2017–2023 · $425k · revenue +182% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • PJ
    PAUL J AND REGINA CONTI DEPINE CHARITABL TRUST FOR THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF VICTORgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +81%
  • SH
    Sacred Heart Church McAllen
    one grant, 2023 · $178k
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO CAPITAL CAMPAIGN INC
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
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
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
2
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
3
El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission

El Buen Samaritano an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas serving the Latino community of Central Texas is committed to recognizing the dignity of all by ensuring access to health care education and essential needs that…

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4
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
5
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
6
San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic

Sa christian dental clinic's mission is to extend christ's healing by providing charitable dental care to underserved bexar county adults. the vision of the clinic is a commitment to creating a community in which dental care and optimal…

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7
Centro San Vicente

Provide community-based primary healthcare with particular concern for the poor and needy. with a coordinated and holistic apporach in caring for body, mind, and spirit, offer affordable health care, social service, and health education…

Health
8
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

Civil Rights
10
Atascosa Health Center Inc

Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.

Health
11
San Antonio Christian School

Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…

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12
St Elizabeth Adult Day Care Center

St. elizabeth adult day care center's mission is to provide a safe, comfortable, wholesome and stimulating environment for the aged and persons with special needs. we will accomplish this by operating as a christian institution, by…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas; the most unlike its peers is Paul J and Regina Conti Depine Charitabl Trust for the Catholic Diocese of Victor. 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

224 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. 224 of the 572 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
220/224
Grantees still filing
153/224
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Diocese of Corpus Christi: $27,664,576 · OtherDiocese of Corpus ChristiFacilities and Maintenance Dept: $5,658,600 · OtherFacilities and Maintenance Dept+165 more: $60,404,574 · Other+165 morePROYECTO DESARROLLO HUMANO: $425,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $370,000 · Human ServicesTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $340,000 · Human ServicesCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC: $255,000 · Human ServicesCamp Aranzazu Inc: $202,500 · Human ServicesCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $197,500 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $195,000 · Human ServicesMary Mcleod Bethune Early Childhood Development Dev: $185,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CORPUS CHRISTI: $162,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesLOAVES AND FISHES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MERCY INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $135,000 · Human ServicesUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $342,000 · EducationSt Peter Catholic: $315,000 · EducationSt Edwards University: $242,000 · EducationTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION: $215,000 · EducationUniversity of Dallas: $187,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas: $168,000 · EducationOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO: $155,000 · EducationMsgr Kelly Catholic High School Foundation Inc: $116,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE COASTAL BEND: $114,500 · EducationChristus Spohn Health System Corporation: $850,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $360,000 · HealthMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $305,000 · HealthChildrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web: $136,000 · HealthCORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $105,000 · HealthDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $295,000 · PhilanthropyDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES- DIOCESE OF TYLER: $116,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ARK ASSESSMENT CENTER AND EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR YOUTH: $185,000 · Housing & ShelterVILLA MARIA OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $140,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION: $300,000 · Animals
Other$93,727,750Human Services$2,897,000Education$1,855,000Health$1,756,000Philanthropy$661,000Housing & Shelter$325,000Animals$300,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $1,975,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetMOTHER TERESA SHELTER INC: $960,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetChristus Spohn Health System Corporation: $850,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROYECTO DESARROLLO HUMANO: $425,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetBethany House of Laredo Inc: $397,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $370,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $360,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $342,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BISHOP ENRIQUE SAN PEDRO OZANAM CENTER INC: $340,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetSt Peter Catholic: $315,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMERCY MINISTRIES OF LAREDO: $305,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $295,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI METRO MINISTRIESINC: $255,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital Development Foundation: $250,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSt Edwards University: $242,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSt Mary's University: $214,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE INC: $210,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $202,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH AND SAINT RITA MONASTERY OF THE CAPUCHIN POOR: $200,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetCASA DE MISERICORDIA: $197,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $195,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $187,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARK ASSESSMENT CENTER AND EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR YOUTH: $185,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMary Mcleod Bethune Early Childhood Development Dev: $185,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetCATHOLIC COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $175,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $168,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CORPUS CHRISTI: $162,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetPOLISH HERITAGE CENTER AT PANNA MARIA FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO: $155,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER ANGELS OF SOUTH TEXAS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSAN JUAN NURSING HOME INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $145,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $145,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $140,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVILLA MARIA OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $140,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web: $136,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $135,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $135,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $122,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMsgr Kelly Catholic High School Foundation Inc: $116,500 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES- DIOCESE OF TYLER: $116,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE COASTAL BEND: $114,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST DOMINIC VILLAGE: $108,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $105,000 over 7y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHER TERESA SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Christus Spohn Health System Corporation ↗

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.

Scanlan FoundationTX141.8× affinity79 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scanlan Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Love Builds Hope Foundation · Strake Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · Puente de Maravillas Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Tres Grace Family Foundation · Earl C Sams Foundation Inc

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 John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 572 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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