
Gifts Made in 2024
(All monetary sums have been rounded to the nearest whole-dollar amount and are from the 2024 calendar year.)
In 2024, 6,310 donors gave $13,651,515 through 9,484 gifts.
Individuals: $4,635,065 (34%)
- Unrestricted: $859,441
- Restricted: $3,775,623
Foundations and Community Groups: $2,901,954 (21%)
- Unrestricted: $169,000
- Restricted: $2,732,954
Corporations: $1,312,037 (10%)
- Unrestricted: $898,011
- Restricted: $414,026
Special Events: $1,125,731 (8%)
- Unrestricted: $706,846
- Restricted: $418,886
Planned Gifts: $146,928 (1%)
- Unrestricted: $129,143
- Restricted: $17,785
Special Purpose: $3,529,800 (26%)
- Unrestricted: $0
- Restricted: $3,529,800
How Your Gifts Helped in 2024
One in six children in the U.S. has a brain disorder, disease or injury. That’s more than 12 million kids. At Kennedy Krieger Institute, we’re working to change that through research, clinical trials and exceptional, interdisciplinary patient care.
Patient care:
- Nearly 30,000 patients served:
- 9% ages 0–3
- 61% ages 4–14
- 20% ages 15–20
- 10% ages 21 and over
- Patients came from:
- 14 Maryland counties and Baltimore City
- 50 states
- 42 countries
- 80+ interdisciplinary programs offered, including programs for:
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Behavioral disorders
- Bone disorders
- Brain injury and concussion
- Cerebral palsy
- Communication disorders
- Developmental disorders
- Down syndrome
- Epilepsy
- Feeding disorders
- Learning disorders
- Long COVID-19
- Muscular dystrophy
- Neurological diseases
- Rare genetic diseases
- Rehabilitation
- Sleep disorders
- Spina bifida
- Spinal cord injury and paralysis
- Sturge-Weber syndrome
- 105,287 telehealth appointments
Schools:
- 478 students from more than 15 school districts in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. (in 2023–2024)
- 100 teachers
- More than 100 clinical specialists
Research and training:
- More than 800 active research studies
- 194 researchers
- 1,088 trainees in 34 disciplines
Community programs:
- More than 125 community training sessions conducted by the Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities
- 938 patients and families received legal help from Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, and Law)
- 29 adaptive sports programs for children and adults
- 911 children with special needs placed in loving foster or respite care since 1987