· Private foundation
Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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: 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $308k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY20–25, $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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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
- HPHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC3× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +385%
- LCLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC2× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +33%
- FHFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST2× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +318%
Funded once
- TCTotal Contributions paidone grant, 2024 · $328k
- BTBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +66%
- OCOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduatedone 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.
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 encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
Tales of Cape Cod, Inc. is a distinguished non-profit organization committed to the preservation and dissemination of Cape Cod's unique historical narrative.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
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.
Provide community access cablecasting broadcasts
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 field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
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 2017–2026, 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.
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 HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC ↗
- Who funds HYANNIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds PAUSE A WHILE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds TRURO COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FARMING FALMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHARING KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
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: 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.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Cape Cod Village Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Samaritans On Cape Cod — 82% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Moving Forward Inc — 60% of income from government
- Sight Loss Services Inc — 46% of income from government
- Latham Centers Inc — 39% of income from government
- Harbor Health Services Inc — 39% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Friends of Bass River Inc — 36% of income from government
- Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc — 33% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cape Cod Toy Library Inc — 13% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Children's Discovery Museum of Cape Cod Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod — 6% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Systems Inc — 3% of income from government
- 20 Summers Inc — 2% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Outermost Performing Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sharing Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chatham Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Provincetown Commons Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hyannis Public Library — 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.