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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 FY2025still arriving
175
Grants FY2025still arriving
32
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$10MEducation$6.0MReligion$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MInternational$682kPublic Benefit$587kHousing & Shelter$165kHuman Services$142kOther$0
02FY2025 · 175 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k145 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $449k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$500
Median grant
32
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$500,001
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY$433,835
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN$300,001
St Kizito Lwetunga Development Prog$207,997
RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATI$166,667
BOSTON COLLEGE$166,667
Hackensack Meridian Health Foundati$150,001
WATER WELLS FOR AFRICA$107,000
American First Policy Institute$100,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$100,000
WATER PROJECT$70,000
CHURCH OF SAINT VINCENT FERRER$52,041
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC PARISH NAKITOMA$48,100
ST CATHARINE-ST MARGARET PARISH$43,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%Arc New York: $500 → 14%Moms for America: $500 → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%The Toms River Field of Dreams: $5k → 11%CAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY: $30k → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $200 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%CAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY: $10k → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%CAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY: $10k → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%CAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY: $10k → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%GOOD COUNSEL: $500 → 4%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%BOYS TOWN: $100 → 12%LEAD THE WAY FUND INC: $250 → 6%GOOD COUNSEL: $100 → 4%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $100 → 26%LEAD THE WAY FUND INC: $200 → 6%GOOD COUNSEL: $100 → 4%THROGGS NECK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $2k → 28%THROGGS NECK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $500 → 28%Siena House: $25k → 28%Siena House: $25k → 28%The Innocence Project: $1k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance: $650k → 17%Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance: $550k → 17%Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance: $200k → 17%NYC Mammas Give Back: $4k → 17%Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance: $1.0M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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DC
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 252 repeat orgs$935k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

252 repeat relationships: 131 still active in FY2025, 121 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

252
131

Total granted

$20M
$626k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+1%

Still filing today

38%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +70%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +47%
  • HA
    HERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA
    5× · 2017–2022 · $378k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • HC
    HMH CARRIER CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • SO
    Sisters of Mercy Marian Woods
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
9
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

The alliance for regenerative medicine (arm) is the preeminent global advocate for regenerative and advanced therapies. arm fosters research, development, investment and commercialization of transformational treatments and cures for…

Health
12
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Republic Book Publishers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

167 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 167 of the 430 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
163/167
Grantees still filing
103/167
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $5,995,407 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN: $1,665,420 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENRONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATI: $600,001 · OtherCHURCH OF ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA: $491,547 · Other+150 more: $4,224,477 · Other+150 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,997,943 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame d…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,731,875 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEFordham University: $1,450,650 · EducationFordham UniversityPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $259,480 · Education+6 more: $145,136 · EducationJUVENILE DIABETES CURE ALLIANCE: $2,400,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE DIA…+6 more: $122,100 · Human ServicesFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,010,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $16,000 · Community ImprovementWATER WELLS FOR AFRICA: $344,600 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $227,829 · InternationalFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $45,000 · InternationalSEED PROGRAMS INC: $27,500 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $26,314 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,514 · International+5 more: $19,600 · InternationalHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA: $378,058 · HealthHMH CARRIER CLINIC INC: $100,000 · HealthHOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC: $30,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Health+6 more: $28,850 · HealthSister Celeste Derr Foundation: $169,669 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,220 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,750 · Philanthropy
Other$12,976,852Education$5,585,084Human Services$2,522,100Community Improvement$1,026,000International$716,357Health$562,908Philanthropy$186,639

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUVENILE DIABETES CURE ALLIANCE: $2,400,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,997,943 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,731,875 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $1,450,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,010,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA: $378,058 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWATER WELLS FOR AFRICA: $344,600 over 5y, 19% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $259,480 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $227,829 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSister Celeste Derr Foundation: $169,669 over 7y, 82% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $154,136 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $82,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY: $66,335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY INC: $60,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $53,075 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSIENA HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN JESUIT PREP: $42,501 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $38,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCPC Integrated Health Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S INN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSEED PROGRAMS INC: $27,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $26,314 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $26,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,514 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL INSURRECTION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $20,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADONNA HOUSE INC: $17,600 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP NEJEDA FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $10,220 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $10,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION: $8,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInsulin For Life USA Inc: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $6,225 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $5,708 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $5,610 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKER T WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTOMS RIVER FIELD OF DREAMS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC: $4,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budget
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 JUVENILE DIABETES CURE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds WATER WELLS FOR AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WATER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Sister Celeste Derr Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HMH CARRIER CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SIENA HOUSE 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.

New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity IncNJ22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 270%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Operation New Hope Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Hope Sheds Light Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Cpc Integrated Health Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Peter's University: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 430 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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