Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC
THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,366,026 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($628,225). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What The Kennedy Collective Inc does
Mission
The kennedy collective, inc. Provides support services and business enterprises that empower and employ people with disabilities. The kennedy collective offers innovative and comprehensive in-home, day and residential programing and provides job opportunities through our business enterprises, community services and workforce development and placement programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential services - housing for persons with intellectual disabilities through community living arrangements.
$11,846,151 spent$2,368,756 earned by the program44% of program spendingDay services - supporting of persons with disabilities in accessing their community, developing life skills, employment options and self advocacy outcomes.
$12,990,362 spent$3,439,528 earned by the program49% of program spendingFood services, cafeteria, supportive employment, maintenance, landscaping, etc (enterprises) community employment services promoting career growth and job independence for persons with disabilities to succeed in the competitive job market.
$1,888,155 spent$1,061,661 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,724,668.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $20M to $24M (+24%).
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 78% · 2018 79% · 2019 80% · 2020 80% · 2021 78% · 2022 67% · 2023 78% · 2024 79% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Richard E Sebastian Jr
President and CEO
Board chair
Benjamin M Strong
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 24 funders, grant income fell $265k → $197k.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
52% 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 THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 45% · 2019 36% · 2020 39% · 2021 45% · 2022 51% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $208.7M on record — $4.9M federal, $203.8M state.
- Department of Justice$2.9M
- Department of Commerce$830k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$774k
- Department of Homeland Security$256k
- Department of Defense$149k
- Client Services-General$114.1M
- Board & Care Of Clients$84.1M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$3.9M
- Medical Program Support Servs$1.4M
- Public Transportation$138k
- State Aid Grants$136k
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 THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Kennedy Center Auxiliary Inc · exempt
- Kenn Homes Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE 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 THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC?
- THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,366,026 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($628,225). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $2,366,026 in grants to THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $628,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 56 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