· Private foundation
Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| IGNATIUS VOLUNTEER CORPS | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON MS | $1,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA | $1,000 |
| SCRANTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SISTERS OF IHM | $900 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN | $500 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF US CATHOLIC PRIE | $500 |
| MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK | $500 |
| QUEEN OF PEACE CHURCH | $500 |
| DIOCESE OF SCRANTON VOCATION END | $500 |
| WORD OF FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $475 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $400 |
| BOYS TOWN | $400 |
| BASILICA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTI | $400 |
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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -36% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN6× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +61%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +36%
- SJST JOSEPHS CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $500
- HCHAZLETON CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICEone grant, 2019 · $500
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.
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St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Hawley Partnership. 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 63 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 68 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 FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MCGLYNN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF US CATHOLIC PRIESTS ↗
- Who funds MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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: The Hawk Family Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Eureka Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · The John P and Jean M Sweeney Family Foundation · Cupillari Charitable Foundation · Sabia Family Foundation · Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · The Grimm 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 Frank and Rita Kelly 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.