New Jersey · Private foundation
The Kean Foundation Inc
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.
- $445k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2025
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 95 to 109
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Kean Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 109 | $440k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 109 | $302k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 105 | $282k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $281k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 108 | $321k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $257k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $70,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Foundation for Morristown Medical Center | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Young America's Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Committee on United States -China Relations Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Two East Sixty-Second Street Foundation | $45,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Seeing Eye Inc | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Group I Acting Company Inc | $39,000 | 6 | 1% |
| George Street Playhouseinc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Liberty Science Center | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 142 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($468k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kean Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 127 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Investors Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Union Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kean Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kean Foundation Inc give?
- The Kean Foundation Inc reported 111 grants totaling $444,566 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 109 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Kean Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (12%), Environment (10%).
- Who are The Kean Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($150k), Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ($71k), Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ($60k).
- Does The Kean Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kean Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kean Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Ej Grassmann Trust.
- Where is The Kean Foundation Inc based?
- The Kean Foundation Inc is based in NJ.
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