Funding search · EIN 226055884 · Lawrence Township, NJ

The James Kerney Foundation

Name: The James Kerney Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

65
grants reported: $670,495
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Rescue Mission4 grants · $106,000
Womanspace3 grants · $57,100
Homefront4 grants · $46,750
Homeworks Trenton2 grants · $41,250
Big Brothers Big Sisters3 grants · $39,500
Cyo of Mercer County3 grants · $37,500
Trenton Circus Squad3 grants · $34,800
Paul Robeson Charter School2 grants · $33,705
Anchor House3 grants · $30,000
Jr Halsey Foundation of the Arts2 grants · $28,000

Giving over time

$73,000

2022

$140,125

2023

$203,705

2024

$253,665

2025

Grant history

All 65 reported grants, largest first.

$50,000
Rescue Mission · Trenton, NJ · 2024
General Purpose
$40,750
Rescue Mission · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$30,000
Homefront · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2024
General Purpose
$27,000
Jr Jalsey Foundation of the Arts · Trenton, NJ · 2024
General Purpose
$25,000
120 East State · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$25,000
Womanspace · Lawrence Township, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$21,000
Homeworks Trenton · Princeton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$20,250
Homeworks Trenton · Princeton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$20,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters · Tampa, FL · 2024
General Purpose
$20,000
Cyo of Mercer County · Trenton, NJ · 2024
General Purpose
$20,000
Capital Harmony Works · Trenton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$20,000
Womanspace · Lawrence Township, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$18,705
Paul Robeson Charter School · Trenton, NJ · 2024
General purpose
$18,000
Jr Halsey Foundation of the Arts · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$16,800
Trenton Circus Squad · Trenton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$16,754
Pei Kids · Lawrence Township, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$15,500
Homefront · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$15,000
Paul Robeson Charter School · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Mount Carmal Guild of Trenton · Trenton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$15,000
Rescue Mission · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$13,575
Friends of Foundation Academie · Trenton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$12,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters · Tampa, FL · 2025
General Purpose
$12,500
Cyo of Mercer County · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$12,500
Millhill Child & Family Development · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$12,100
Womanspace · Lawrence Township, NJ · 2024
General Purpose
$12,000
Trenton Circus Squad · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$10,006
The Makers Place · Eqing Township, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$10,000
Anchor House · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$10,000
Arm in Arm · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$10,000
Dress for Success · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$10,000
Anchor House · Trenton, NJ · 2024
General Purpose
$10,000
Meals On Wheels of Mercer · Ewing, NJ · 2024
General Purpose
$10,000
Boys & Girls Club of Mercer Co · Lawrence, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$10,000
Anchor House · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$10,000
Jr Halsey Foundation of the Arts · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$7,787
Mercer Street Friends · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$7,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters · Tampa, FL · 2023
General Purposes
$6,000
Trenton Circus Squad · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$5,000
Freedom House · Clinton, NJ · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Arm in Arm · Trenton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$5,000
Cyo of Mercer County · Trenton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$5,000
Meals On Wheels of Mercer County · Ewing, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$5,000
First Presbyterian Church · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$1,018
Sea Education Association · Falmouth, MA · 2025
General Purpose
$1,000
Homefront · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$500
Nj State Museum Foundation · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$500
Old Barracks Assoication · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$500
Out of the Cold · State College, PA · 2025
General Purpose
$500
Roebling Museum · Roebling, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$500
State College Food Bank · State College, PA · 2025
General Purpose
$500
The Center for Grieving Children · Portland, ME · 2024
General purpose
$500
Global Connections Foundation · Princeton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$500
Pennsylvania State University · State College, PA · 2023
General Purposes
$500
The Girls Foundation of Tanzania · Portland, ME · 2023
General Purposes
$500
Global Connections Foundation · Princeton, NJ · 2022
General Purposes
$500
Pennsylvania State University · State College, PA · 2022
General Purposes
$400
Sea Education Association · Falmouth, MA · 2024
General Purpose
$400
Sea Education Association · Falmouth, MA · 2023
General Purposes
$250
Trenton Area Soup Kitchen · Trenton, NJ · 2025
General Purpose
$250
Homefront · Lawrenceville, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$250
Rescue Mission · Trenton, NJ · 2023
General Purposes
$200
Friends of Casco Bay · Portland, ME · 2025
General Purpose
$200
Middlebury College · Middlebury, VT · 2025
General Purpose
$200
The Center for Grieving Children · Portland, ME · 2025
General purpose
$100
The Taft School · Watertown, CT · 2023
General Purposes

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