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The Kennedy Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$703kHuman Services$130kReligion$30kRecreation & Sports$25kPhilanthropy$20kHealth$5kFood & Nutrition$1kPublic Benefit$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$258k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION$4,300
FRIENDS OF MASCOMA FOUNDATION$1,038
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SOUL RYEDERS: $5k → 9%ST BENEDICT PARISH: $12k → 13%HEART LOVE AND SOUL PANTRY: $1k → 14%ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $100 → 16%RENEW REBUILD: $20k → 17%HOSPICE OF CHARITY: $100 → 18%PART OF THE SOLUTION: $100k → 28%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $25k → 14%MIDDLEBURY ATHLETICS: $25k → 9%FRIENDS OF MASCOMA FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION: $4k → 9%ST BENEDICT PARISH: $9k → 13%THE JESUIT MISSION: $200 → 14%FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $56k → 28%MIDDLEBURY ATHLETICS: $25k → 9%CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION: $2k → 9%ST BENEDICT PARISH: $1k → 13%THE JESUIT MISSION: $100 → 14%ST BENEDICT PARISH: $350 → 13%REVEREND R SAM: $200 → 13%60TH PRESIDENTAL ANNIVERSARY: $200 → 13%REVEREND R GILLEAX: $150 → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $100 → 13%ST BENEDICT PARISH: $75 → 13%BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100 → 13%CANTALICIAN CENTER: $100 → 13%CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $210k → 13%CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $158k → 13%CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $128k → 13%CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $100k → 13%CANISIUS COLLEGE: $25k → 13%UNITED WAY: $20k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WNY: $10k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $10k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 13%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $100 → 13%THE FOUNDATION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE: $250 → 13%CARMELITE NUNS: $200 → 13%JACOBS INSTITUTE: $200 → 13%CARMELITE NUNS: $100 → 13%NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL: $1k → 13%BUFFALO HERITAGE VILLAGE: $200 → 13%NARDIN ACADEMY: $100 → 13%DOMINICAN MONASTERY: $100 → 13%ALZHEIMIERS ASSOC OF WNY: $100 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
$695k · 7 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
27

Total granted

$695k
$266k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+54%

Still filing today

14%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • CH
    CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2024 · $595k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k
  • SB
    ST BENEDICT PARISH
    5× · 2017–2021 · $23k

Funded once

  • PO
    PART OF THE SOLUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +53%
  • FP
    FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $56k
  • CU
    CANISIUS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +6%
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.

1
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
2
Stony Brook Surgical 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
3
University of Mount Saint Vincent

Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
8
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
9
Iona University

Iona university is a caring academic community, inspired by the legacy of blessed edmund rice and the christian brothers, which embodies opportunity, justice, and the liberating power of education. iona university's purpose is to foster…

Education
10
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
11
Marist University

Marist university is dedicated to helping students develop the intellect, character and skills required for enlightened, ethical, and productive lives in the global community of the 21st century.

Education
12
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Part of the Solution; the most unlike its peers is Soul Ryeders Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $595,149 · OtherCANISIUS HIGH SCHOOLFORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $55,579 · OtherFORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+25 more: $109,258 · Other+25 morePART OF THE SOLUTION: $100,000 · Food & NutritionPART OF THE…CANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFriends of Mascoma Foundation: $1,038 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropySOUL RYEDERS INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC: $200 · Health
Other$809,986Food & Nutrition$100,000Education$25,000Philanthropy$21,138Health$5,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUL RYEDERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Mascoma Foundation: $1,038 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BUFFALO ↗
  • Who funds SOUL RYEDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Mascoma Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE JACOBS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗

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 Osc Charitable Fo…Mother Cabrini Health…Community Foundation …Russo Family Charitab…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Osc Charitable FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Osc Charitable Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Russo Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Kennedy Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Kennedy Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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