The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX · EIN 46-5166978. Reported 84 grants totalling $194,991 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $450. Half of everything it gave fell between $200 and $2,000; the smallest was $40 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Family Donor Advised Fund | Fair Oaks Ranch, TX | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Helena's Episcopal Church | Boerne, TX | $30,590 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lifetime Recovery | San Antonio, TX | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| William's Community School | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Magdalena House | San Antonio, TX | $6,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| International Academy of Ind Medical Evaluators | Vancouver, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sdpm Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bass Club of Champions | Boerne, TX | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | San Antonio, TX | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Reach Ministries | Corpus Christi, TX | $3,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Transformation House | Boerne, TX | $3,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Roundtop Festival Institute | Round Top, TX | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cavalry Episcopal Church | Bastrop, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Episcopal Diocese of West Texas | San Antonio, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marbridge Foundation | Manchaca, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| He Butt Foundation | Kerrville, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sun Valley Jazz & Music Festival | Sun Valley, ID | $1,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marbridge | Manchaca, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| One Christian Ministry | San Antonio, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Serenitystar Recovery Resources | Smithville, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Uganda Tree of Life Ministries | Boerne, TX | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Christian Ministries | Purvis, MS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity | San Antonio, TX | $650 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Als Association Texas Chapter | Carrollton, TX | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alzheimer's Association | Chicago, IL | $600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics Texas | Pflugerville, TX | $600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boerne Samuel V Champion High School PTO | Boerne, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| James Dick Foundation | Round Top, TX | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meals on Wheels | San Antonio, TX | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Memphis, TX | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Life | Colorado Springs, CO | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | Topeka, KS | $400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Project Transformation Rio Texas | San Antonio, TX | $375 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association | Dallas, TX | $350 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coastal Bend Community Foundation | Corpus Christi, TX | $320 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Driscoll Children's Hospital | Corpus Christi, TX | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Klrn | San Antonio, TX | $300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Freedom Movement | Park City, UT | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Parkinson Disease Association | Staten Island, NY | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| LSU School of Medicine | New Orleans, LA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Andrews Episcopal Church | Austin, TX | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Susan G Komen | Dallas, TX | $250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Bible Society | Philadelphia, PA | $240 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alpha Home | San Antonio, TX | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | Memphis, TX | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | Staten Island, NY | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cal Farley's Boys Ranch | Amarillo, TX | $112 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Supply Co | Dallas, TX | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Vision | Federal Way, WA | $54 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
20 of 51 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 44%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | $31,580 | $500 |
| 2022 | 32 | $82,764 | $450 |
| 2023 | 20 | $31,660 | $425 |
| 2024 | 13 | $48,987 | $375 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in Texas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $450. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Lou and Bud Kennedy Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 8454 Northview Pass, Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, 78015. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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