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Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$692kArts & Culture$249kEducation$202kHuman Services$162kHousing & Shelter$161kEnvironment$102kYouth Development$100kFood & Nutrition$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CAPE COD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CAPE COD$15,000
FRIENDS OF BASS RIVER$15,000
FARMING FALMOUTH$15,000
FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST$15,000
ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLAN$15,000
LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C$12,500
MASSACHUSETTS OYSTER PROJECT$10,000
CAPE & ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTE$10,000
BOYS TOWN NEW ENGLAND$10,000
TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HI$10,000
ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD$10,000
CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

+59%
+9%

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 ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • 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%
  • PA
    PAUSE A WHILE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +806% · 65% of their budget
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Center of Cape Cod; 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.
04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
49/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureYARMOUTH NEW CHURCH PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureORLEANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER CAPE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM OF CAPE COD INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOUTERMOST PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 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 ServicesCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBoys Town New England 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 · HealthHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $10,000 · HealthCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 · HealthAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD 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 · PhilanthropyCAPE COD TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMASS APPEAL: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPAUSE A WHILE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST: $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRURO COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFARMING FALMOUTH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 budgetCAPE COD TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREWSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAMARITANS ON CAPE COD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROVINCETOWN COMMONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORLEANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS OYSTER PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOWER CAPE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORFUL KIDZ INC: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMASS APPEAL: $10,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetCAPE COD VILLAGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

Cape Cod Foundation I…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Lyndon Paul Lorusso C…Bilezikian Family Fou…Cape & Coast Bank Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cape Cod Healthcare I…Rockland Trust Charit…Seamens Long Point Ch…Cape and Islands Unit…Palmer and Jane D Dav…
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

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 Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 340%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
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, 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home