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KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,540 to it, the largest being MIKE AND DOROTHY VONDRA FOUNDATION ($21,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$325k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$8k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Kennedy Family Foundation Inc does

Mission

The kennedy family foundation, inc. Is organized exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, including, for such purpose, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under irc section 501(c)(3) and limited primarily to or for the benefit of the residents of rock county, wisconsin and surrounding areas.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Raised funds and distributed $208,169 to qualifying organizations in rock county, wisconsin and surrounding areas.

    $308,211 spentof which $308,169 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $308,211.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($236k) Net assets 100 ($106k)2018 Revenue 92 ($107k) Expenses 76 ($179k) Net assets 32 ($34k)2019 Revenue 359 ($415k) Expenses 163 ($383k) Net assets 62 ($66k)2020 Revenue 230 ($266k) Expenses 121 ($286k) Net assets 44 ($46k)2021 Revenue 275 ($318k) Expenses 144 ($340k) Net assets 23 ($24k)2022 Revenue 224 ($259k) Expenses 120 ($283k) Net assets 1 ($560)2023 Revenue 375 ($433k) Expenses 184 ($433k) Net assets 1 ($1k)2024 Revenue 281 ($325k) Expenses 135 ($319k) Net assets 7 ($8k)
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Revenue (281)Expenses (135)Net assets (7)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $106k to $34k (−68%).

$106k
$34k
$66k
$46k
$24k
$560
$1k
$8k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

108% of KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$120k
’17
−$72k
’18
$32k
’19
−$20k
’20
−$22k
’21
−$24k
’22
$588
’23
$6k
’24
0.3
months of
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.

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Listed44444443
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.

From the IRS filings of KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC.

62%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.

IL
WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

38%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC?
KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,540 to it, the largest being MIKE AND DOROTHY VONDRA FOUNDATION ($21,540). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,540 in grants to KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC?
MIKE AND DOROTHY VONDRA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENNEDY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing