Welcome to the Kenney Brothers Foundation. Created by a merger in 2008 of the Jay Kenney Foundation and the William C. Kenney Watershed Foundation, the new organization reflects and honors four generations of Kenney Brothers over three centuries. The first set of brothers manufactured school desks and equipment in Boston between 1844 and 1940¹. The second set founded the two predecessors to the Kenney Brothers Foundation. The third set includes Clayton (now a Board member of the foundation) and his brother, Duncan.²

Two funds currently make up the foundation: the Wick Kenney Fund and the Jay Kenney Fund.

¹For a copy of the Kenney Bros. 1933 catalog of customized school furniture click here.

²If you are thinking that some names and faces are missing, you're right. The furniture clan included: Horace, Sr., William, Frederick, Winthrop, and Elizabeth, shown in a 1918 picture with their parents Charles and Clara. Horace, Sr. had a son, and two daughters. The son, Horace, Jr., is a long-term board member and past-executive director of the Sippican Lands Trust, Marion, MA, www.sippicanlandstrust.org. He in turn is the father of Susanna, Chad, Jay, Chip, & Wick Kenney. Jay is the father of Clayton & Duncan Kenney.