· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +70%- FUFordham University8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +47%
- HAHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA5× · 2017–2022 · $378k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- HCHMH CARRIER CLINIC INCone grant, 2024 · $100k
- SOSisters of Mercy Marian Woodsone grant, 2017 · $51k
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITALone 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.
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.
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.
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.
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,…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
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…
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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- 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 ↗
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- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
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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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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