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Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$146kReligion$76kEducation$69kHealth$22kCivil Rights$21kAnimals$13kPhilanthropy$6kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$701k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI$10,000
STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$7,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$5,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
BRAIN TRAUMA FOUNDATION INC$2,000
LAMBDA LEGAL$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $500 → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $500 → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$296k · 15 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$296k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+92%

Still filing today

73%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +107%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +46%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • KG
    Kline Galland Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +418%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +1%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +147%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
2
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

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5
Hillel At Washington University in St Louis

The mission of hillel at washington university in st louis is to be a catalyst for jewish life among college students in st louis. we connect students with one another and with jewish culture and traditions through service and social…

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6
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
7
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
9
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
10
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.

Community Improvement
11
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
12
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Jewish Community FederationsLand Conservation Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community CentersCommunity Health CentersWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Independent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFaith-Based Senior Living
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr15%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr13%47%35–55yr15%27%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,934

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAI — $71,850 · OtherTEMPLE DE HIRSCH SINAISTROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $37,250 · OtherSTROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $28,850 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONSWEDISH CANCER INSTITUTE — $10,500 · OtherSWEDISH CANCER INSTITUTEOPEN WINDOW SCHOOL — $7,250 · Other+22 more — $41,051 · Other+22 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $74,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE+2 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $23,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationPRAGER UNI…MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $4,500 · EducationMY STUFF B…+1 more — $500 · EducationKline Galland Center — $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $13,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $6,000 · Civil RightsOLD DOG HAVEN — $7,333 · AnimalsAKASHINGA INC — $2,000 · AnimalsSEATTLE ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 · AnimalsDONEY MEMORIAL PET CLINIC DBA DONEY COE PET CLINIC — $1,833 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $834 · AnimalsISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $4,000 · International
Other$196,751Human Services$77,500Education$36,500Health$29,500Civil Rights$19,000Animals$14,000International$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $74,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKline Galland Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $23,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN — $7,333 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN WINDOW SCHOOL — $7,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Solomon Schechter — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN TRAUMA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKASHINGA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDONEY MEMORIAL PET CLINIC DBA DONEY COE PET CLINIC — $1,833 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRIEND TO FRIEND-AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $834 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationSamis FoundationLott FoundationJewish Federation of …United Way of King Co…Dunietz Minsk Family …Rind Family FoundationRichard and Francine …R & H Rosen Family Fo…Newman Family Foundat…Tillie & Alfred Shema…Puget Sound Energy Fo…
Seattle FoundationWA25.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Samis Foundation · Lott Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · United Way of King County · Dunietz Minsk Family Foundation · Rind Family Foundation · Richard and Francine Loeb Family Foundation · R & H Rosen Family Foundation · Newman Family Foundation · Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust · Puget Sound Energy 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 Howard and Frances Keller Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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