Pennsylvania · 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 35
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $242k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 38 | $30k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $28k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $28k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $34k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $24k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $18k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $21k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scranton Preparatory School | $7,000 | 6 | n/a |
| St Francis of Assisi Kitchen | $4,425 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart | $3,900 | 7 | n/a |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $3,150 | 7 | 0% |
| St Josephs Center | $2,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Poor | $2,450 | 7 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Bread For The World Inc | $1,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Queen of Peace Church | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Josephs Indian School | $900 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frank and Rita Kelly 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: 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
How this is measured
About Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation
- How much does Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation give?
- Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $30,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Youth Development (14%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Scranton Preparatory School ($7k), St Francis of Assisi Kitchen ($4k), Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart ($4k).
- Does Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hawk Family Foundation, Scranton Area Foundation Inc, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc.
- Where is Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation based?
- Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation is based in PA.
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