California · Nonprofit
THE KENNEDY COMMISSION
THE KENNEDY COMMISSION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,635 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($670,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What The Kennedy Commission does
Mission
The purpose of this corporation is to provide educational and charitable assistance to the general public by organizing and conducting community oriented programs aimed at improving the quality and availability of affordable housing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Kennedy Commission strives to increase equitable and affordable housing opportunities for Orange Countys lowest income families and workers. The Commissions goals are: 1) to implement policies and programs in each Orange County jurisdiction to facilitate affordable housing production; 2) to increase financial resources available for the creation of affordable housing; 3) to increase public awareness of the need for and benefits of affordable housing; and 4) to increase public participation in the support of affordable housing production and land-use reform throughout the County. 5) Ensure that public land, local citys land use and housing investments are used to equitably address the need to increase affordable housing for lower income households. The following summarizes the accomplishments of the Commissions staff and volunteers in 2023: I.Create and Implemented Favorable Affordable Housing Policies -Worked to educate and implement CA SB 4 Affordable Housing on Faith Lands to ensure that local jurisdictions prioritize the development of affordable housing on religious land and community colleges.-Worked to monitor and implement the CA Surplus Land Act to ensure that local…
$628,835 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $628,835.
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 $2.1M to $3.0M (+41%).
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.
93% of THE KENNEDY COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $165k → $568k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $1.7M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Joseph Health System Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE KENNEDY COMMISSION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE KENNEDY COMMISSION’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
THE KENNEDY COMMISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% 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 COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 90% · 2019 78% · 2020 37% · 2021 28% · 2022 33% · 2023 44% — 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
40% of THE KENNEDY COMMISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
90% of THE KENNEDY COMMISSION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $420k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE KENNEDY COMMISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,973 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE KENNEDY COMMISSION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE KENNEDY COMMISSION: 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 COMMISSION?
- THE KENNEDY COMMISSION (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,390,635 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($670,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KENNEDY COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,390,635 in grants to THE KENNEDY COMMISSION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KENNEDY COMMISSION?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $670,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KENNEDY COMMISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 19 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