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The Kennedy-Herterich Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$474kEducation$423kHuman Services$391kYouth Development$335kRecreation & Sports$204kHealth$199kFood & Nutrition$188kCommunity Improvement$167kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS ON POINT$66,393
HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION$55,000
CHRIST SCHOOL$32,000
CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER$31,000
OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$25,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$25,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND$23,000
PORTER-GAUD SCHOOL$16,000
THE VILLAGE FDT OF BLOWING ROCK$15,000
THE GREEN HEART PROJECT INC$10,000
THE PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION$10,000
CAMP HAPPY DAYS$10,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIO$7,000
CHARLESTON BOXING FOUNDATION$6,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $454k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $78k → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $66k → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $63k → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $55k → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $46k → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $43k → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION: $30k → 21%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $15k → 21%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $11k → 21%HIGH COUNTRY CARE GIVER FDN: $10k → 21%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $10k → 21%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $5k → 21%OPERATION HOME: $3k → 12%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE: $3k → 12%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE: $3k → 12%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $5k → 21%OPERATIONS HOME: $2k → 12%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $5k → 21%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE: $4k → 21%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 39 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
13

Total granted

$3.0M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • HC
    HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue ×15 · 32% of their budget
  • KO
    KIDS ON POINT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $314k · revenue +162%
  • CS
    CHRIST SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASU FDN OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2019 · $21k
  • MS
    MABEL SCHOOL PTA
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • AS
    APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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2
Coastal Educational Foundation

To provide support to coastal carolina university through charitable donations received primarily from individual donors.

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3
Charleston Collegiate School

Charleston Collegiate Schools mission is to inspire students to become passionate, lifelong learners by empowering them with knowledge, creativity, curiosity and confidence to mindfully embrace the opportunities of tomorrow.

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4
College of Charleston Alumni Association

The association works to build a culture of pride and engagement by ensuring alumni from the college of charleston stay informed, get involved, and give back.

Education
5
Chamber Music Charleston

Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.

Arts & Culture
6
The University of Charleston Inc

Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.

Education
7
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
8
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
9
Carolinas Golf Foundation

The carolinas golf foundation was formed by the carolinas golf association in 1977 to provide scholarships and funding for a variety of carolinas-based golf initiatives.

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10
Chanticleer Athletic Foundation

Providing financial assistance to student athletes at coastal carolina university

Education
11
Charleston School of Law

The mission of the charleston school of law foundation inc is to encourage and assist the study, teaching, promoting and research of the rule of law in charleston, south carolina and all related subject areas as determined by the board of…

Education
12
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids On Point Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pure Theatre. 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

34 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. 34 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
31/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC: $143,765 · OtherCAMP HAPPY DAYS INCJOHN F KENNEDY CTR FOR THE PERF AR: $128,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY CTR FOR THE PERF ARIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA: $75,610 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF BOONE: $64,600 · OtherHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF BOONEDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $56,000 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANSASU FDNWALKER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $35,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $42,500 · OtherThe Children's Playhouse Inc: $39,500 · Other+24 more: $305,500 · Other+24 moreCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $210,500 · EducationCHRIST SCHOOL INCAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $105,000 · EducationAMERICAN COLLEGE O…OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationOLE MISS ATHLETIC …COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLES…+3 more: $20,500 · EducationHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $389,828 · Human ServicesHIGH COUNTRY CAR…Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc: $54,800 · Human ServicesWomens Fund of t…+2 more: $9,500 · Human ServicesKIDS ON POINT INC: $313,893 · Recreation & SportsKIDS ON POINT IN…THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND: $126,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE COLLEGE OF C…+1 more: $10,500 · Recreation & SportsCHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $151,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON GAI…PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION: $107,755 · Arts & CulturePROJECT DANCE …CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON SYM…THE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BLOWING RO…CHARLESTON BOXING FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VILLAGE FOUNDATION OF BLOWING R: $181,500 · Public BenefitGreen Heart Project Inc: $128,500 · Environment
Other$980,475Education$511,000Human Services$454,128Recreation & Sports$450,393Arts & Culture$392,255Public Benefit$181,500Environment$128,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION: $389,828 over 8y, 32% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC: $313,893 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $210,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VILLAGE FOUNDATION OF BLOWING R: $181,500 over 8y, 20% of budgetCHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $151,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC: $143,765 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $128,500 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND: $126,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION: $107,755 over 9y, 28% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $105,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWomens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc: $54,800 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC: $42,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetThe Children's Playhouse Inc: $39,500 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM: $22,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBLOWING ROCK CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $19,500 over 9y, 15% of budgetCHARLESTON BOXING FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL WATAUGA COUNTY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON: $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE: $8,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOasis Shriners: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASTING BREAD MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPure Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOME INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASHE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VILLAGE FOUNDATION OF BLOWING R ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds Green Heart Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Playhouse Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BLOWING ROCK CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON BOXING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL WATAUGA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON HOPE ↗

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Dominion Energy Chari…The Mark Elliott Motl…The Joanna FoundationKuznik Charitable Fou…Trident United WayFoundation for the Ca…Central Carolina Comm…T-Bonz Foundation IncWomens Fund of the Bl…Raymond James Charita…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC25.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · Foundation for the Carolinas · Central Carolina Community Foundation · T-Bonz Foundation Inc · Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Kennedy-Herterich Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kennedy-Herterich Foundation 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 56 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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