How much did THE THOMAS S KENAN III FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of THE THOMAS S KENAN III FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

kampong ntbgpresident'sgivingconcerteducation

2022

chapelhealthbenefitsymphonygardenchurchart

2023

maintenancemusuemarteducation

2024

dukeeducation

2025

auctionarts carrborogreatestconcertsmemorydubosescholarships

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $79k
$10k–50k14 grants · $169k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

DUPLIN COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$30,000
KENAN CENTER LOCKPORT$15,000
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$12,000
DUPLIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$12,000
FRANK H KENAN CHAPEL LANDFALL$10,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNC - GREENSBORO$10,000
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
UNC- WILMINGTON$10,000
THE ARTS CENTER - CARRBORO$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
DUKE UNIVERSITYALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT RECORDS$10,000
URBAN YOUTH IMPACT INC$10,000
NC ARTS IN ACTION$10,000
NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of THE THOMAS S KENAN III FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE THOMAS S KENAN III FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$644k · 35 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$644k

$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+27%

Still filing today

34%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthReligionOther

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

UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $43k · revenue +48%
NT
NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
4× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +174%
DC
DUPLIN COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +71%

Funded once

KW
KNOWLEDGE WELL INC
one grant, 2023 · $25k
THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE TRIANGLEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +252%
HM
HENRY MORRISON FLAGLER MUSUEM
one grant, 2021 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Durham Museum

Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.

Arts & Culture

Greensboro College

An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.

Education

Davidson Day School

Davidson Day is a Pre-K through 12th grade college preparatory school located in Davidson, North Carolina. Davidson Day School fosters academic excellence through collaboration, creativity, and character development. Our vision is to be a…

Education

North Carolina Museum of Life &

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture

Montessori School of Durham

Montessori's mission is igniting passion and curiosity for lifelong learning.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

North Carolina Zoological Society Inc

The mission of the nc zoo society is to champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future. the nc zoo society is your bridge to more than a zoo visit. we make you a partner in the zoo's global…

Animals

The Duke University School of

To support the charitable, scientific and educational activities of duke university and duke university health system, inc. form 990-ez, part v, line 34the duke university school of medicine research foundation board approved by sufficient…

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Durham Community Charter School

Operation of a public charter school.

Education

Trinity Academy of Raleigh

The mission of trinity academy is to equip students to live with wisdom, excellence, and purpose in the modern world by offering an education grounded in the christian faith and the classical tradition.

Education

The University of North Carolina At

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Student U and the most unlike its peers is National Gallery of Art. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/42

the rest of the field

13%

6,816/53,138

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.

06the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

32/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$775,025Education$126,000Arts & Culture$47,700Environment$37,200Philanthropy$23,100Religion$21,500Youth Development$11,000

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC32.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Truist Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Duke University · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Fidelity Foundation

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 organisation THE THOMAS S KENAN III 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE TRIANGLE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 561610461 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE TRIANGLE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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THE THOMAS S KENAN III FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation?

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THE THOMAS S KENAN III FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation?

More from the funding graph