· Private foundation
The Robert and Ann Kennedy 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $13,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION GREATER SOUTHEAST AFFILIATE | $10,500 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA | $10,000 |
| STJUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $8,500 |
| PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $8,000 |
| FISCHER CTR FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARC | $6,500 |
| OXFAM | $6,000 |
| BOYS TOWN | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $5,000 |
| UNICEF | $4,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
| CHARITY NAVIGATOR | $1,500 |
| FLORIDA BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +98%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +33%
- LVLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $73k · revenue +294%
Funded once
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 institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA BREAST CANCER COALITION RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Robert and Ann Kennedy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Ann Kennedy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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