· Private foundation
Christopher R Kelly Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of CHRISTOPHER R KELLY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ALL SAINTS BY THE SEA | $5,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WA NA WARI | $5,000 |
| MARYS PLACE | $2,000 |
| UC BERKELEY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY PREP | $2,000 |
| MILLS COLLEGE AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOVARD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ESTRELLA WARBIRDS MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| KIT CARSON HOME AND MUSEUM | $1,500 |
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 (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. 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- STST THOMAS SCHOOL2× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +77%
- CMClaremont McKenna College2× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +89%
- ODOLD DOG HAVEN3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- FSFROST SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2019 · $30k
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISone grant, 2020 · $8k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Wwi Museum and Memorial and 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 115 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 ST THOMAS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UFFIZI GALLERY ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Deerfield Beach Rotary Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds Kit Carson Home and Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Fort Ross Conservancy ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SUTTERS FORT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds Magnolia Better Together ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
- Who funds ESTRELLA WARBIRDS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Christopher R 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 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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