· Private foundation
Brettkelly Famliy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SQUASH DRIVE | $15,000 |
| ANGEL CITY SPORTS | $10,000 |
| SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD | $1,000 |
| ABILITY PATH | $1,000 |
| SWIM ACCROSS AMERICA | $500 |
| COFAM | $399 |
| U C BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSQUASHDRIVE4× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +28%
- UHUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +21%
- ATACHIEVE TAHOE7× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $13k
- SFS F DEBUTANTE BALLone grant, 2024 · $7k
- SYSCHOOL YEAR ABROADone grant, 2023 · $7k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SQUASHDRIVE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Angel City Alliance ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DANCE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WISHES ↗
- Who funds Harper For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILITYPATH ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brettkelly Famliy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brettkelly Famliy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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