· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k100 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC | $40,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $25,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $22,666 |
| EAGLEVISION PRODUCTIONS INC | $20,000 |
| GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY | $10,000 |
| NJPAC | $10,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON US CHINA RELATIONS | $10,000 |
| MAPLEWOOD FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE RAPTOR TRUST | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
129 repeat relationships: 94 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +121%- CFCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +26%
- FFFoundation for Morristown Medical Center3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +46%
Funded once
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +117%- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IVISINMI VILLAGEone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
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…
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
How this is measured
132 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. 132 of the 182 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kean Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kean Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Raritan Headwaters Association: 94% of income from government
- Crossroads of the American Revolution Association Inc: 62% of income from government
- Legal Services of New Jersey Inc: 53% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
- Music for All Seasons Inc: 41% of income from government
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc: 38% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance: 35% of income from government
- Nj State Fmba Foundation Inc: 28% of income from government
- Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
- New Jersey Ballet Company Inc: 19% of income from government
- New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault: 14% of income from government
- Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
- The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
- Westfield Historical Society: 6% of income from government
- Jersey Cares Inc: 6% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc: 4% of income from government
- Bonnie Brae: 3% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Liberty Hall Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj: 1% of income from government
- People for Animals Inc: 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society: 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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