North Carolina · Private foundation
The Thomas S Kenan III 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.
- $251k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 42
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 | 38 | $251k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $218k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $225k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $201k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $142k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $56,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Stephens Episcopal Church | $52,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Secu Family House at Unc Hospitals | $47,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $43,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Tropical Botanical Garden | $37,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Duplin County Education Foundation | $36,500 | 4 | 32% |
| North Carolina Arts in Action Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Knowledge Well Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Durham Nativity School Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle | $22,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($374k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke University · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Randleigh Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation
- How much does The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation give?
- The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $250,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 42 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (23%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Duke University ($56k), St Stephens Episcopal Church ($52k), Secu Family House at Unc Hospitals ($48k).
- Does The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation based?
- The Thomas S Kenan III Foundation is based in NC.
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