· Private foundation
The Kmj 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Kmj Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Kmj Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $502k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME | $110,100 |
| CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL | $110,000 |
| ST KATHERINE OF SIENA | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $49,535 |
| ROSEMONT SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD | $30,000 |
| WALKING WITH PURPOSE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $20,000 |
| RC ACTIVITIES INC | $10,000 |
| TRI DELTA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA | $5,000 |
| ST BRENDAN THE NAVIGATOR PARISH | $5,000 |
| SAINT LEO THE GREAT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BONITA BAY HURRICANE RELIEF FUND IN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $605k · revenue +31%
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $603k · revenue +216%
CARING FOR FRIENDS2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +134%
- CKCamp Kesem Nationalone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
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)
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 38 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds iCan Shine Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDZ2LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds BONITA BAY HURRICANE RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION 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: The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila · I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kmj Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kmj Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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