· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| IGNATIUS VOLUNTEER CORPS | $1,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA | $1,000 |
| SCRANTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON MS | $1,000 |
| SISTERS OF IHM | $900 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN | $500 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF US CATHOLIC PRIE | $500 |
| QUEEN OF PEACE CHURCH | $500 |
| MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK | $500 |
| DIOCESE OF SCRANTON VOCATION END | $500 |
| WORD OF FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $475 |
| BASILICA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTI | $400 |
| BOYS TOWN | $400 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -36% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MCGLYNN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds MEN OF MELCHIZEDEK INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF US CATHOLIC PRIESTS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Rita Kelly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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