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The Kinney Family 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.

$25k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
46%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$551
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations The Kinney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’23
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPublic 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202313$24k46%
FY20211$5k0%
FY20195$7k100%
FY20187$13k86%
FY20176$163kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$172kHealth$17kYouth Development$7kHuman Services$6kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$3kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MA
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bishop McNamara High School$152,0001n/a
Shepherd Center Inc$8,00020%
Dana-Farber Inc$4,00020%
For Kids' Sake Foundation Inc$3,00020%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$3,00020%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$3,00020%
WGBH Educational Foundation$1,00020%
City Year Inc$1,00010%
Feeding America$1,00010%
United Service Organizations Inc$30010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kinney Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShepherd Center Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFor Kids' Sake Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Year Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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How do I get to The Kinney Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kinney Family 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.

About The Kinney Family Foundation

How much does The Kinney Family Foundation give?
The Kinney Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $24,800 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Kinney Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (81%), Health (8%), Youth Development (3%).
Who are The Kinney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Bishop McNamara High School ($152k), Shepherd Center Inc ($8k), Dana-Farber Inc ($4k).
Does The Kinney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kinney Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Kinney Family Foundation based?
The Kinney Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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