· Private foundation
The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Transformation House | $5,000 |
| Lifetime Recovery | $5,000 |
| Laity Lodge Foundation | $5,000 |
| Faith Angler Network | $5,000 |
| Safari Club International | $5,000 |
| Bass Club of Champions | $1,450 |
| St Helena's Episcopal Church | $1,200 |
| Sun Valley Jazz Festival | $1,200 |
| LSU School of Medicine | $1,000 |
| American Parkinson Disease Association | $500 |
| American Parkinsons Disease Association | $275 |
| Center for Action and Contemplation | $250 |
| Round Top Festival Institute | $250 |
| Family Violence Prevention Services | $250 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SASAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +201%
- MMMAGDALENA MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +65%
- THTransformation House4× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +284%
Funded once
- WCWilliam's Community Schoolone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SFSDPM Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IAInternational Academy of Ind Medical Evaluatorsone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
The mission of Texas Heart Institute (THI) is to reduce the devastating toll of cardiovascular disease through innovative and progressive programs in research, education, and improved patient care.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Hope media group's (hmg) mission is engaging people to love jesus, serve others, and spread hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIFETIME RECOVERY INC DBA LIFETIME RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds MAGDALENA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST HEALING CENTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Transformation House ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL HILL COUN ↗
- Who funds Laity Lodge Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAITH ANGLER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Reach Ministries ↗
- Who funds H E BUTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds KENDALL COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Uganda Tree of Life Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.