Iowa · Private foundation
Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $368k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $721
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,488
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $368k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $17k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $16k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $21k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $20k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $18k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $16k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $18k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of North Iowa | $107,089 | 9 | 1% |
| The Easter Seal Society Foundation | $107,089 | 9 | 7% |
| Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc | $60,244 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of North Central Iowa | $60,244 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust
- How much does Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust give?
- Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $367,541 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Animals (21%), Health (21%).
- Who are Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hospice of North Iowa ($107k), The Easter Seal Society Foundation ($107k), Community Kitchen of North Ia Inc ($60k).
- Does Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust based?
- Charles B & Vivian Kelly Charitable Trust is based in IA.
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