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The Kenan Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE 21 PARK CITY CORP | $50,000 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| UNC AT WILMINGTON FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SINGING ON GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN | $30,000 |
| ST STEPHENS EPSICOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| DUPLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| CANAL ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SF MARIN FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| ST STEPHENS EPSICOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NC | $15,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NC | $10,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BPBRIDGE21 PARK CITY CORP6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +368% · 28% of their budget
- CACANAL ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +80%
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $24k
- CFCAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +27%
- ASAgnes Scott Collegeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Friends School and the most unlike its peers is Sisu Adult Growth. 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.
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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BRIDGE21 PARK CITY CORP ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trinity School Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REALITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Marin City Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds MAKER UNION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds Arts For Life ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS ↗
- Who funds JUPITER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SISU ADULT GROWTH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Hope Through Life Foundation · Strowd Roses Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Kenan Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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