· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| DUPLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| CANAL ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| ST STEPHENS EPSICOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| ST STEPHENS EPSICOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NC | $15,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SF MARIN FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +49% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- BABELOVED ASHEVILLEone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
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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.
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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.
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Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 46 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.
- 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 BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SISU ADULT GROWTH ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kenan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kenan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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