New Jersey · Private foundation
Brian & Joelle Kelly Family 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 175
- Grants FY2025
- 129
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,001
- Organizations funded a year
- 103 to 218
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 32
- Total assets, FY2025
- $71M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 169 | $2.5M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 129 | $2.5M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 198 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 218 | $2.1M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 186 | $2.3M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 173 | $2.7M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 137 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 103 | $1.3M | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance | $2,400,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $1,731,875 | 8 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $1,450,650 | 8 | 0% |
| Church of St Ignatius Loyola | $491,547 | 7 | n/a |
| Heritage Action for America | $378,058 | 5 | 1% |
| Water Wells for Africa | $344,600 | 5 | 19% |
| Prager University Foundation | $259,480 | 6 | 0% |
| The Water Project Inc | $227,829 | 5 | 1% |
| Sister Celeste Derr Foundation | $169,669 | 7 | 82% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $154,136 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 193 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 228 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 147 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · The Salem Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Soros Fund Charitable Foundation · Al & Peggy Dematteis Family Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation
- How much does Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation give?
- Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation reported 175 grants totaling $2,994,034 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 103 and 218 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (50%), Education (29%), Religion (6%).
- Who are Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance ($2.4M), Trustees of Boston College ($1.7M), Fordham University ($1.5M).
- Does Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc, The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc, Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation.
- Where is Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation based?
- Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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