· Private foundation
Brian M and Erin T Kelly 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 $10k8 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VINE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE | $80,000 |
| St Mary Foundation | $33,000 |
| Club 100 | $18,500 |
| His Way At Work | $15,000 |
| Miles Christi | $8,500 |
| My Catholic Doctor Foundation | $5,000 |
| RABINE FOUNDATION | $2,911 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Informed Choices | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,668 |
| Illinois Family Institute | $1,500 |
| Focus | $1,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +128% since the first grant, against +117% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
Augustine Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +321%- RLReal Life Catholic2× · 2021–2022 · $160k · revenue +5%
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +967%
Funded once
- WCWyoming Catholic Collegegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +121%
- AHANNUNCIATION HEIGHTSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +117%
- TCTHE CAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN MISSION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…
Catholics for Catholics is fighting to bring the Catholic faith back into the public square through rosary rallies, media, political action and more!
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Word on fire catholic ministries is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.
Advancing the catholic faith through education and dissemination of information by operation of websites.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 40 Days for Life and the most unlike its peers is The Vine Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 44 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
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 Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Real Life Catholic ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds ANNUNCIATION HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds HIS WAY AT WORK ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MADONNA RENEWAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MY CATHOLIC DOCTOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARADISUS DEI INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
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: The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 M and Erin T Kelly 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ave Maria University 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.