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The Karen a and Kevin W 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.

$424k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

54% of The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of Hamilton College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 27 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $424k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’19
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’20
26
’21
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’22
32
’23
24
’24
27
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Education$1.3MHealth$219kArts & Culture$135kAnimals$130kInternational$65kEnvironment$50kYouth Development$44kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP INC$140,000
SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL$60,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY DBA POINT BLUE CONSERVATION SCIENCE$30,000
PAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$20,000
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$15,000
THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC$15,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$10,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS$10,000
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS$8,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC$5,000
TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY$5,000
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $5k → 10%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $1k → 6%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$891k · 28 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
23

Total granted

$891k
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SR
    SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $240k · revenue +20%
  • PR
    POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +113%
  • TH
    THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +228%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Neuromuscular Disease Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -88%
  • MO
    Metropolitan Operal National Council
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • BH
    BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +73%

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
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
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
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Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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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
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Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
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President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Development CentersCancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsAddiction Recovery ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts Centers
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,700

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.

04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Trustees of Hamilton College — $398,100 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $260,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL — $240,000 · EducationSAGE RIDGE SCHOOLPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $90,000 · EducationPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC — $50,000 · Education+9 more — $111,900 · Education+9 moreTHE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP INC — $140,000 · OtherTHE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLA…HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL S…Metropolitan Operal National Council — $25,000 · OtherMetropolitan Operal Na…VINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC — $16,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS — $25,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · Other+27 more — $110,756 · Other+27 morePULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $55,000 · HealthThe Neuromuscular Disease Foundation — $50,000 · HealthCRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 · HealthVineyard House Inc — $5,000 · HealthPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $130,000 · AnimalsWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $6,000 · Arts & CultureRacing Thoughts Inc — $5,500 · Arts & CultureSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $5,700 · Arts & CultureTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC — $60,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · InternationalChewonki Foundation Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Environment
Education$1,150,000Other$391,756Health$135,000Animals$130,000Arts & Culture$75,200International$70,000Environment$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $398,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $260,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL — $240,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $130,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $90,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Neuromuscular Disease Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC — $10,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMoving Mountains Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetInternet Archive — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for the Study of International Communication Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRacing Thoughts Inc — $5,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard House Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYou've Got a Friend Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget180 TURNING LIVES AROUND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Sexual Wellness Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

Martha's Vineyard Ban…Sibbri FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…South Mountain Compan…Martha's Vineyard Com…Gretchen V & Samuel M…Jewish Communal FundThe Peter and Elizabe…The New York Communit…Ibm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…
Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation IncMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Sibbri Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · South Mountain Company Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust

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 organization The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 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.

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How do I get to The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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