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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,963,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,492,170). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $67M
What John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation Incorporated does
Mission
The john f. Kennedy presidential library and museum (the "library") is the nation's official memorial to the thirty-fifth president. The library, which was constructed with private funds donated by the public, is administered by the national archives and records administration. The library receives an annual federal appropriation for building maintenance and a portion of its personnel costs. The balance of their financial support has historically been provided by income generated from museum admission fees, usage fees for the library's meeting facilities, and through the generosity of thousands of private individuals, corporations, state appropriations and grants, and foundations who donate money and in-kind services to the john f. Kennedy library foundation ("foundation"). The library and the foundation are united in a common mission to perpetuate president kennedy's ideal that political and public service be conducted and exemplified as an honorable and patriotic profession. The foundation, representing a wide variety of constituencies within the general public, works closely with the library to develop programs that advance the study and understandings of president kennedy's…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education, hemingway and museum support(see more detail in schedule o)education highlightsguided museum visits - in 2025, museum educators led nearly 125 field trips for elementary, middle, and high school students. In total, over 4,600 students and 600 chaperones were guided through the exhibits and introduced to key history and civics topics related to president kennedy's life and times. Free admission was provided by the library for all school groups, and transportation was provided by the foundation at no cost for 1,000 students in the boston public schools and other districts. The federal budget program engaged nearly 225 high school students in and around the boston area, and the annual student leadership conference offered 53 students and 14 chaperones a full day of hands-on learning, discussion, and personal reflection related to leadership. The library's volunteer docents led nearly 350 tours for over 3,500 visitors, helping to bring to life the library's exhibits and collections.youth and family programs - over 2,500 people visited the john f. Kennedy presidential library and museum through the 2025 celebrate! And presidents' day festival programs. The celebrate! Series…
$1,411,593 spentof which $37,000 as grants$9,050 earned by the program34% of program spendingCommunications(see more detail in schedule o)the jfk library foundation's communications and marketing programs provide a direct and deep engagement with the john f. Kennedy presidential library and museum ("library") for audiences across the nation and around the world through the foundation's website. These audiences have the opportunity to discover president kennedy's leadership, style, and humanity, along with exposure to historical artifacts, letters, stories, and people from president kennedy's administration. The foundation is able to present the online user with information on the importance of historical records, democratic principles, and public service ideals president kennedy championed throughout his political career. Visits to the foundation's website topped 4 million in 2025, with a total of 7.9 million pageviews. The library has a robust audience of 575,000 followers on social media, and its youtube channel received 7,234,924 views in 2025 a 125% increase over the number of views in 2024.the library's special exhibit this year was "presidential pets," a window into the lives of first families through the lens of the pets they loved. A specific marketing campaign…
$1,270,091 spent31% of program spendingAwards and support(see more detail in schedule o)profile in courage award - the profile in courage award committee selected vice president mike pence as the 2025 profile in courage award honoree for putting his life and career on the line to ensure the transfer of presidential power on january 6, 2021. Pence was selected from a list of 19 nominees chosen from nearly 12,000 nominations from the public and from the profile in courage award committee members.the award received significant media attention, garnering over 2,300 media mentions with a reach of over 7.4 billion readers. The live-stream, recording, and clips from the ceremony received over 2.2 million online views, and a recorded interview between jack schlossberg and vice president pence received over 11,000 views.three new members joined the profile in courage award committee in 2025: professor heather cox richardson, historian and author; hadley duvall, activist; and david m. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chairman, the carlyle group. Earthshot legacy partners - launched in 2023, the earthshot legacy partners initiative extends the foundation's partnership with prince william's earthshot prize building the prize's impact…
$835,366 spentof which $161,500 as grants$66,207 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe kennedy library is a nationally recognized leader in the field of archival digitization, and the digitization program is one of the most robust in the presidential library system. Since its inception in 2006, with the foundation's support of the digitization staff and all of equipment required for this operation, which has allowed the library to furnish online access to approximately one million pages of documents, 20,700 photographic images, 3,600 sound recording segments, 1,350 oral history interview transcripts, and 125 motion pictures from the kennedy presidency. In 2025, digital archives pages on the website received more than 913,000 views.kennedy family collection - digitization of the kennedy family collection was completed in 2025, with the library and foundation digitization staff finalizing cataloging and descriptions, conducting quality control, updating the finding aid, and publishing the collection for public use. The collection, which was donated to the library by president kennedy's mother, rose fitzgerald kennedy, contains approximately 6,000 items that document the life and times of the kennedy and fitzgerald families over a span of about 100 years 1878…
$618,150 spentof which $26,300 as grants$7,400 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,135,200.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $64M to $53M (−17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 18% · 2021 23% · 2022 14% · 2023 13% · 2024 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rachel Flor
Executive director
Board chair
Ronald L Sargent
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $2.8M → $2.3M.
13 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boston Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 43% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,963,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,492,170). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $11,963,561 in grants to JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,492,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 79 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing