Texas · Private foundation
The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $32k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $49k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $32k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $82k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $32k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $16k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $28k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $19k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Helenas Episcopal Church | $60,790 | 9 | n/a |
| San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery | $48,260 | 9 | 0% |
| Magdalena Ministries Inc | $11,462 | 7 | 0% |
| Christ Healing Center Ministries | $8,672 | 2 | 1% |
| Transformation House | $8,600 | 4 | 1% |
| Bass Club of Champions | $7,050 | 7 | n/a |
| Young Life | $6,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Laity Lodge Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Faith Angler Network | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Safari Club International Hill Coun | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: San Antonio Area Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trustee · John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324 · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation
- How much does The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation give?
- The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $32,419 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Philanthropy (22%), Health (22%).
- Who are The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Helenas Episcopal Church ($61k), San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery ($48k), Magdalena Ministries Inc ($11k).
- Does The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc.
- Where is The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation based?
- The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation is based in TX.
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