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The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation at a glance

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The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$809k
Granted FY2026still arriving
31
Grants FY2026still arriving
9
States reached
$252k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MHealth$219kArts & Culture$135kAnimals$130kInternational$65kEnvironment$50kYouth Development$44kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2026 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k15 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
  • $250k+1 grant · $252k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$159k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE$252,000
WEST CHOP COMMUNITY FUND INC$105,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL$60,000
NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE FOUNDATION$40,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC$35,000
POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY DBA POINT BLUE CONSERVATION SCIENCE$30,000
ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY$25,000
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$25,000
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$20,000
SACRED HEART GREENWICH$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS$15,000
INTERNET ARCHIVE$15,000
HALO TRUST$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$10,000
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 (FY24–26, $27k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $15k → 10%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $1k → 6%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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
DC
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 30 repeat orgs$504k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
32

Total granted

$1.2M
$358k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+28%

Still filing today

97%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SR
    SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL
    4× · 2023–2026 · $300k · revenue +20%
  • PR
    POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY
    5× · 2021–2026 · $160k · revenue +113%
  • AT
    ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2021–2026 · $75k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $140k
  • HF
    HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $35k
  • MO
    Metropolitan Operal National Council
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
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
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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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9
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
10
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
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
University of Mount Saint Vincent

Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Hamilton College: $650,100 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $435,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL: $300,000 · EducationSAGE RIDGE SCHOOLPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $95,000 · EducationPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · Education+10 more: $139,400 · Education+10 moreTHE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP INC: $140,000 · OtherTHE LITTLE CLUB SCHO…MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC: $51,000 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD PL…HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL…Metropolitan Operal National Council: $25,000 · OtherVINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART INC: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $40,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB …Chewonki Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherInternet Archive: $25,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Other+25 more: $115,206 · Other+25 moreThe Neuromuscular Disease Foundation: $90,000 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthCRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · HealthVineyard House Inc: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 · HealthPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $160,000 · AnimalsWEST CHOP COMMUNITY FUND INC: $105,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED CHARITABLE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyYou've Got a Friend Inc: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,250 · PhilanthropyTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $75,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · InternationalWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $8,000 · Arts & CultureRacing Thoughts Inc: $6,500 · Arts & CultureSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMASTERVOICES INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,700 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,694,500Other$516,206Health$207,500Animals$160,000Philanthropy$136,250International$95,000Arts & Culture$80,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $650,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $435,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL: $300,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $160,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPAVE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Neuromuscular Disease Foundation: $90,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC: $51,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternet Archive: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC: $15,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard House Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoving Mountains Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for the Study of International Communication Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetRacing Thoughts Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYou've Got a Friend Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $2,000 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.

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

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 Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Karen a and Kevin W Kennedy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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