The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation (JPKF) is a non-profit foundation founded by Ambassador

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Joseph Patrick Kennedy (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was the patriarch of the Irish-American Ke ...

in 1946 in memory of his son

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was the eldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. A US Navy lieutenant, he was killed in action during World War II while serving as a l ...

The foundation was led by his youngest brother, U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, until his death in 2009. The foundation funded the construction of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Hall at

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

, now a part of

Campion Hall Campion Hall is one of the five permanent private halls of the University of Oxford in England. It is run by the Society of Jesus and named after Edmund Campion, a martyr and fellow of St John's College, Oxford. The hall is located on Brewer St ...

and home to the college's Lynch School of Education. The foundation had assets in 2000 of $30 million (equivalent to $ million in ).Frank L. Ellsworth (Editor), Joe Lumarda (Editor), 2003,
From Grantmaker to Leader : Emerging Strategies for Twenty-First Century Foundations
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Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation
Kennedy family Charities based in Massachusetts Organizations based in Boston Organizations established in 1946 1946 establishments in the United States {{org-stub