The Kresge Foundation
kresge.org Direct + LP
The Kresge Foundation is a private national foundation that works to expand equity and opportunity in America's cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and community development.
The Kresge Foundation is an investor headquartered in Troy, United States, founded in 1924. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, in arts & Culture, education, environment and health.
“Through grantmaking and social investing, we dismantle barriers and build pathways to justice.”
— The Kresge Foundation, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Other
- Stage
- Unknown
- Headquarters
- Troy, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Health, Human Services, Community Development
- Founded
- 1924
Team, as The Kresge Foundation publishes it
- Rip Rapson President and CEO
- John A. Barker Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
- Jon D. Gentry Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
- Emily Bertsche Deputy Chief Investment Officer
- Zenna Elhasan Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary
- Amy B. Robinson Vice President, CFO and Chief Administrative Officer
- Benjamin S. Kennedy Vice President
- Wendy Lewis Jackson Managing Director
- William F. L. Moses Managing Director
- Aaron Seybert Managing Director
- Regina R. Smith Managing Director
- Chantel Rush Tebbe Managing Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on kresge.org. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 2 co-investors found.
- Felicis Ventures 1 shared company: fluxx.io
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 1 shared company: fluxx.io
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page The Kresge Foundation publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://kresge.org/name, is_investor, layer, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://kresge.org/about-us/type, description, founded
- https://kresge.org/about-us/our-staff/people
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Record 1482 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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