How much does Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation give?

Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $44,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (29%), Health (11%).

Who are Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Thomas School ($35k), University of Miami ($25k), Claremont McKenna College ($12k).

Does Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Driano Family Foundation, Apex Foundation.

Where is Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation based?

Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation is based in WA.

Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation

Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$227kArts & Culture$145kHealth$54kAnimals$21kReligion$16kCommunity Improvement$13kEnvironment$7kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$428k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION	$5,000
WA NA WARI	$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$5,000
ALL SAINTS BY THE SEA	$5,000
UNIVERSITY PREP	$2,000
MILLS COLLEGE AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY	$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOVARD COLLEGE	$2,000
GROTON SCHOOL	$2,000
MARYS PLACE	$2,000
BENNINGTON COLLEGE	$2,000
UC BERKELEY	$2,000
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON FOUNDATION	$2,000
KIT CARSON HOME AND MUSEUM	$1,500
FORT ROSS CONSERVANCY	$1,500
FRIENDS OF SUTTERS FORT	$1,500

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$245k · 25 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$245k

$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+43%

Still filing today

68%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

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

ST
ST THOMAS SCHOOL
2× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +77%
CM
Claremont McKenna College
2× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +89%
OD
OLD DOG HAVEN
3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +76%

Funded once

FS
FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC
one grant, 2019 · $30k
UO
University of Miamigraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVIS
one grant, 2020 · $8k

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.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture

American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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Museum of the American Revolution

The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.

Arts & Culture

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

Uss Constitution Museum Inc

The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Wwi Museum and Memorial; the most unlike its peers is Sweet Adelines International Harmony Northwest Chapter. 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

46 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. 46 of the 115 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/46

Grantees still filing

32/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$336,109Education$72,100Arts & Culture$47,750Animals$18,500Health$17,400Youth Development$7,000Community Improvement$5,500

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Driano Family Foundation · Apex Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation

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 Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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