· Private foundation
Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k107 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN | $833,334 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $440,000 |
| NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY | $433,334 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN | $200,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $166,667 |
| RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATI | $166,667 |
| WATER WELLS FOR AFRICA | $119,050 |
| Carrier Clinic | $100,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST CATHARINE-ST MARGARET PARISH | $66,070 |
| WATER PROJECT | $60,000 |
| St Kizito Lwetunga Development Prog | $55,615 |
| Saint Peters University | $33,334 |
| BOWERY MISSION | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
229 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 141 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 COLLEGE7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +70%- FUFordham University8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +47%
- HAHERITAGE ACTION FOR AMERICA5× · 2017–2022 · $378k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $51k
- SOSisters of Mercy Marian Woodsone grant, 2017 · $51k
- SPSEED PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
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.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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,…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 392 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JUVENILE DIABETES CURE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- 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 CAMP FATIMA OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SIENA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brian & Joelle Kelly Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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