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Brian and Karen Kelley Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Brian and Karen Kelley 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Religion$13kHealth$4kHuman Services$2kEducation$1kCivil Rights$200
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$380
Median grant
4
States reached
$212k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANN PARISH$9,075
CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER$950
CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST$500
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$380
REINS FOR LIFE$300
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES$250
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS$121
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHERRY BLOSSOM VACATIONS: $500 → 8%CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST: $500 → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST: $500 → 10%CHILDREN & FAMILIES FIRST: $500 → 10%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250 → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 4 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$28k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+10%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • SA
    ST ANN PARISH
    4× · 2022–2025 · $22k
  • RO
    Reins of Life
    3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue -13%
  • CA
    CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $600 · revenue +22%
  • CC
    CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +10%
  • CB
    CHERRY BLOSSOM VACATIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -71%
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Holy Cross Health Inc

We, holy cross health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. we carry out this mission in our communities through our commitment to be the…

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3
Glacier Hills Inc

We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence in our communities.glacier hills is a member of the trinity senior living communities…

Human Services
4
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
5
Trinity Continuing Care Services

We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity continuing care services (d/b/a trinity health senior…

Health
6
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
7
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Children's Specialized Hospital

To be the preeminent provider of specialized healthcare services for infants, children and young adults. the organization provides medically necessary pediatric healthcare services to all children in a non-discriminatory manner regardless…

Health
9
Christiana Care Home Health and Community Services Inc

Christiana care health system is dedicated to improving the health of all individuals in the communities we serve through health care services, education and research. the role of christiana care home health and community services, inc,…

Health
10
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
11
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
12
Clarion Hospital

Clarion hospital, an affiliate of independence health system, exists to provide a trusted delivery of care which makes a positive impact on the lives of every individual we touch.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christiana Care Health Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANN PARISH: $21,669 · OtherST ANN PARISH+1 more: $200 · OtherReins of Life: $3,591 · HealthReins of LifeCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $950 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRISIS TR…THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $600 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATI…CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $500 · HealthCHRISTIANA CARE HEAL…CHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $1,500 · Human ServicesCHERRY BLOSSOM VACATIONS INC: $500 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $250 · Human ServicesAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: $1,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $640 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $121 · Education
Other$21,869Health$5,641Human Services$2,250Education$1,761

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetReins of Life: $3,591 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN AND FAMILIES FIRST: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY BLOSSOM VACATIONS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 and Karen Kelley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian and Karen Kelley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Children and Families First: 87% of income from government
  • Christiana Care Health Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 12 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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