· Private foundation
The Kent Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTRAL FLORIDA | $3,000 |
| PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ORLANDO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT | $2,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| CUB SCOUT PACK 28 | $2,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC | $1,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +86% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +39%
- AFAdventHealth Foundation Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +86%
- OHOrlando Health Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +358%
Funded once
- FHFLORIDA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +39%- IFITHACA FINE ARETS BOOSTER GROUPone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
The community foundation of the holland/zeeland area seeks to ensure that our community thrives today, tomorrow, and forever by building our community's endowment to support high impact charitable projects, helping donors achieve their…
Support of miami university
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…
Soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes all for the advancement of the university of west florida (uwf). to promote and support education and…
The university of north florida foundation, inc., which includes the alumni association and the osprey club, is a non-profit entity organized to provide financial support to the students and programs of the unf.
The foundation raises charitable funds from the public to provide support to the college through student scholarships, awards, and faculty support for academic extracurricular activities.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 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.
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 PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor Springs Library ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CORTLAND LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF HOMER INC ↗
- Who funds Seniors First Inc ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NYPENN PATHWAYS INC ↗
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: Triford Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Mps Foundation · Tom and Ellen Noneman Foundation Co Plante Moran Trust · Baiardi Family Foundation Inc · The Offield Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Frey Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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