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Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$421k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of EDWARD BANGS KELLEY AND ELZA KELLEY FOUNDATION INC’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.

02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $308k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HYANNIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$25,000
LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC$20,000
FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER$15,000
FARMING FALMOUTH$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CAPE COD$15,000
ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLAN$15,000
FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST$15,000
CAPE COD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC$15,000
LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C$12,500
SHARING KINDNESS INC$10,000
CAPE & ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTE$10,000
CAPE ABILITIES$10,000
CAPE COD CHILDRENS MUSEUM$10,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN$10,000
REACH OUT AND READ$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BOYS TOWN NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 7%COMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $10k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES: $10k → 8%MOVING FORWARD INC: $5k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $25k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $25k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $20k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $15k → 8%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $15k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLAN: $15k → 8%FRIENDS OF BOURNE COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$967k · 21 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
73

Total granted

$967k
$968k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+10%

Still filing today

62%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HP
    HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +385%
  • LC
    LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +33%
  • FH
    FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST
    2× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +318%

Funded once

  • TC
    Total Contributions paid
    one grant, 2024 · $328k
  • BT
    BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +66%
  • OC
    OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +82%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
2
The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc

To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod

Environment
3
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
4
Tales of Cape Cod Inc

Tales of Cape Cod, Inc. is a distinguished non-profit organization committed to the preservation and dissemination of Cape Cod's unique historical narrative.

5
Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc

Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…

Community Improvement
6
Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation Inc

The blue economy project is a regional iniative to promote and sustain a maritime-focused economy on cape cod, martha's vinyard and nantucket and southern plymouth county. promotes sustainable use planning dedicated to preserving our…

Community Improvement
7
Truro Historical Societyinc

The mission of the truro historical society is to acquire, protect, display and maintain artifacts of interest to the general public, with special emphasis on the truro community. displays will rotate, new items acquired, educational and…

Arts & Culture
8
Pleasant Bay Community Boating Inc

To provide accessible educational and recreational boating opportunities that best serve the residents and visitors in the region around pleasant bay (located in cape cod, massachusetts). pleasant bay community boating aims to open up…

Recreation & Sports
9
Lower Cape Community Access Television Inc

Lower cape community tv is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that supports community voice, local news reporting, and access to video storytelling tools and training on cape cod and operates from a community studio in orleans, ma.

Arts & Culture
10
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.

11
Falmouth Historical Society Inc

The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.

Unclassified
12
Cape Cod Community Television Corp

Provide community access cablecasting broadcasts

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Center of Cape Cod and the most unlike its peers is Eastham Historical Society. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%10%<5yr13%13%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr21%18%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%4%<5yr13%11%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr21%20%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/101
the rest of the field
10%
173/1,702

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.

04the grantee network

92 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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 141 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
51/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $335,332 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONTotal Contributions paid — $328,000 · OtherTotal Contributions paidCAPE COD HEALTH CARE — $167,667 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTH CARECAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $100,000 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE+81 more — $739,877 · Other+81 moreNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureTRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER CAPE COMMUNICATIONS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYARMOUTH NEW CHURCH PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM OF CAPE COD INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOUTERMOST PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureORLEANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD — $7,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $30,000 · Arts & CultureHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC — $35,000 · Human ServicesELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCAPE ABILITIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBoys Town New England Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC — $25,000 · HealthHARBOR HEALTH SERVICES INC — $17,500 · HealthHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC — $15,000 · HealthSHARING KINDNESS INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE SAMARITANS ON CAPE COD — $10,000 · HealthAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC — $10,000 · HealthHEROES IN TRANSITION INC — $10,000 · HealthCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthHYANNIS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $25,000 · EducationCape Cod Foundation Inc — $21,894 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 · EducationCAPE COD TOY LIBRARY INC — $5,000 · EducationCAPE COD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 · EducationCape Cod Speaker Series Inc — $3,000 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · EducationASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS OYSTER PROJECT INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST — $5,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $2,500 · Environment+1 more — $2,000 · EnvironmentPAUSE A WHILE INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMASS APPEAL — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE COD TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PROVINCETOWN THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,670,876Arts & Culture$166,500Human Services$155,000Health$109,500Education$70,894Environment$69,500Philanthropy$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC — $65,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetHYANNIS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST — $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPAUSE A WHILE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc — $21,894 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHARBOR HEALTH SERVICES INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRURO COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $13,084 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE COD VILLAGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAMARITANS ON CAPE COD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORFUL KIDZ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREWSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMASS APPEAL — $10,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOWER CAPE COMMUNICATIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS OYSTER PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCAPE COD TECH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROVINCETOWN COMMONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetORLEANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL CAPE COD INC — $9,805 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC — $9,800 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCAPE COD LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $9,412 over 1y, 11% of budgetHOMELESS NOT HOPELESS INC — $8,670 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD YARMOUTH INC — $7,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLATHAM CENTERS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA134.9× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Palmer and Jane D Davenport 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 Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 340%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc100% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Village Inc100% of income from government
  • The Samaritans On Cape Cod82% of income from government
  • Cape Abilities Inc81% of income from government
  • Health Imperatives Inc79% of income from government
  • Moving Forward Inc60% of income from government
  • Sight Loss Services Inc46% of income from government
  • Latham Centers Inc39% of income from government
  • Harbor Health Services Inc39% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition37% of income from government
  • Friends of Bass River Inc36% of income from government
  • Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc33% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc27% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc26% of income from government
  • South Shore Community Action Council Inc20% of income from government
  • Outer Cape Health Services Inc18% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc16% of income from government
  • Calmer Choice Inc14% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Toy Library Inc13% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc9% of income from government
  • Children's Discovery Museum of Cape Cod Inc7% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc6% of income from government
  • The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod6% of income from government
  • Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc5% of income from government
  • Homeless Prevention Council Inc4% of income from government
  • Community Systems Inc3% of income from government
  • 20 Summers Inc2% of income from government
  • Orleans Conservation Trust2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Outermost Performing Arts Center Inc1% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation1% of income from government
  • The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc1% of income from government
  • Sharing Kindness Inc1% of income from government
  • Chatham Historical Society Inc0% of income from government
  • Provincetown Commons Inc0% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc0% of income from government
  • Hyannis Public Library0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
34get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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