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Wayne T Kennedy and Lorelei F Rockwell Family Foundation at a glance

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Wayne T Kennedy and Lorelei F Rockwell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.4MHuman Services$31kAnimals$24kFood & Nutrition$18kEnvironment$18kInternational$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,125
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$5,125
KETTERING CENTERVILLE KIWANIS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HIP HOUSING: $5k → 7%PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2k → 8%MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $2k → 8%GLENDALE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $200k → 9%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $2k → 17%CORNELL COLLEGE: $200k → 9%CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $4k → 8%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $2k → 9%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MAISON SCHOOL: $500k → 16%KETTERING CENTERVILLE KIWANIS: $5k → 16%KIWANIS CLUB OF KETTERING: $4k → 14%THOMAS FORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $300k → 19%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2k → 7%MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $2k → 8%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 14%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $2k → 17%CORNELL COLLEGE: $100k → 9%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MAISON SCHOOL: $300k → 16%KETTERING CENTERVILLE KIWANIS: $5k → 16%THOMAS FORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $500k → 19%CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THAN 1000: $37k → 7%MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $2k → 8%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MAISON SCHOOL: $300k → 16%KETTERING CENTERVILLE KIWANIS: $5k → 16%THOMAS FORD MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THAN 1000: $10k → 7%MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $2k → 8%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MAISON SCHOOL: $200k → 16%KETTERING CENTERVILLE KIWANIS: $5k → 16%CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THAN 1000: $8k → 7%PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%BARSTOOL FUND: $3k → 17%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 16%KETTERING CENTERVILLE KIWANIS: $5k → 16%CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THAN 1000: $8k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA: $100k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%KETTERING CENTERVILLE KIWANIS: $4k → 16%CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THAN 1000: $7k → 7%MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $10k → 8%ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IA
OH
CA
UT
VA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 26 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+28%

Still filing today

54%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CORNELL COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $300k · revenue +39%
  • MA
    MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST
    7× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +33%
  • TM
    THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +25%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
29/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MAISON SCHOOL: $1,300,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MAISON SCHOOLMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAIIRoosevelt University: $100,000 · Other+33 more: $179,937 · Other+33 moreUniversity of Chicago: $500,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoCORNELL COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGEUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois FoundationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAGlendale College Foundation: $100,000 · EducationGlendale College Foundation+3 more: $7,715 · EducationTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $11,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,046 · AnimalsMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $13,200 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,280 · Food & NutritionNAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST: $7,150 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $5,100 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,750 · InternationalABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 · InternationalPacific Legal Foundation: $9,600 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,429,937Education$1,107,715Animals$23,546Food & Nutrition$16,480Environment$12,250International$11,750Crime & Legal$9,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRoosevelt University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlendale College Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST: $13,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $9,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAPA COUNTY LAND TRUST: $7,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,615 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,663 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $5,046 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Investment Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,280 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $358 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wayne T Kennedy and Lorelei F Rockwell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne T Kennedy and Lorelei F Rockwell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Wayne T Kennedy and Lorelei F Rockwell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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