Nevada · Private foundation
Estelle J Kelsey Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Estelle J Kelsey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.1M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $966k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $900k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $760k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renown Health Foundation | $1,477,500 | 7 | 9% |
| Nevada Museum of Art | $1,470,000 | 9 | 2% |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $923,670 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows | $868,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada | $325,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc | $222,600 | 9 | 0% |
| The 1701 Group Fka Assistance League of Reno-Sparks | $170,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Care Chest of Sierra Nevada | $165,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Mason Valley | $125,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Reno-Sparks Gospel Mission Incorporated | $116,740 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Estelle J Kelsey Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · William N Pennington Foundation · Renown Health · The Marshall R Matley Foundation · Minnie B Leonette Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Estelle J Kelsey Foundation
- How much does Estelle J Kelsey Foundation give?
- Estelle J Kelsey Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $1,250,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Estelle J Kelsey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Youth Development (24%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Estelle J Kelsey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Renown Health Foundation ($1.5M), Nevada Museum of Art ($1.5M), University of Nevada Reno Foundation ($924k).
- Does Estelle J Kelsey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Estelle J Kelsey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Estelle J Kelsey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert Z Hawkins Foundation, The E L Cord Foundation, NV Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Estelle J Kelsey Foundation based?
- Estelle J Kelsey Foundation is based in NV.
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