Home Page About KMF Kenedy Memorial Foundation About Us Sarita Kenedy East established the foundation in 1960 to support and fund Catholic educational charitable and religious activities in Texas primarily in the region of the Diocese of Corpus Christi as that entity then existed. The mission of the Foundation is to nurture and advance activities which contribute to the following core values Helping break the cycle of poverty Assisting people to help themselves Nurturing support and love for Catholic institutions Developing the Catholic faith Learning Spirituality Respect Cooperativecollaborative partnership The Foundation encourages grants with large ripple effects that is those which generate benefits which spread beyond their primary grantee into the wider community as well as seed money grants whereby Foundation support provides a needed catalyst or first step to very significant and preferably ongoing positive core value effects. Although its principal beneficiary is Catholic charities the Foundation supports nonsectarian charities in Texas to the extent of at least 10 per cent of its annual distributions. Nonsectarian institutions are defined as nonreligious and not church related.