How much does The Keenan Foundation Inc give?

The Keenan Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $345,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Keenan Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Recreation & Sports (30%), Community Improvement (13%).

Who are The Keenan Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising ($715k), Rye Youth Athletic Foundation ($125k), The Good Shephard Inc ($110k).

Does The Keenan Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Keenan 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 Keenan Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Heffernan Family Foundation.

Where is The Keenan Foundation Inc based?

The Keenan Foundation Inc is based in NY.

The Keenan Foundation Inc

The Keenan Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Keenan 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.

$345k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$100k

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

63% of The Keenan Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Keenan Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $345k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.7MCommunity Improvement$715kAnimals$410kHealth$188kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kPhilanthropy$125kReligion$93kOther$0

02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k5 grants · $20k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$50k–250k4 grants · $300k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MARINE CORPS LAW ENFORCEMENT FDTN	$100,000
ARBOR BROTHERS INC	$100,000
GAUCHOS	$50,000
IONA PREPATORY SCHOOL	$50,000
PART OF THE SOLUTION	$15,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION	$10,000
YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER	$5,000
SPECIAL OPERATIORS TRANSITION FDTN	$2,500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 21 repeat orgs$708k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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

Total granted

$1.8M

$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+30%

Still filing today

62%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING
8× · 2017–2024 · $715k · revenue +187%
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THE GOOD SHEPHARD INC
2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +3%
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US LACROSSE INC
3× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +3%

Funded once

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NEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +89%
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TEAMWORK FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
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LADY CHOZ INC
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -27%

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.

Row New York Inc

Through the discipline of rowing and rigorous academic support, row new york transforms the lives of new yorkers, regardless of background or ability.

Recreation & Sports

Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education

Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation

Harlem lacrosse's mission is to empower the children who are most at risk for academic decline and dropout to rise above their challenges and reach their full potential. harlem lacrosse inspires children to dream about tomorrow while…

Recreation & Sports

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports

Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Heights Youth Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rye Youth Athletic Foundation. 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

26 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. 26 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

19/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,154,895Other$1,135,000Philanthropy$790,000Youth Development$195,000Human Services$141,000Recreation & Sports$103,500Food & Nutrition$65,000

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.

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.

The New York Community TrustNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Heffernan Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Keenan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Keenan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home