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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 FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$701k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsHealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$47k40%
FY20239$50k44%
FY202210$56k30%
FY202110$43k40%
FY202012$52k25%
FY201913$36k46%
FY201814$55k64%
FY201711$37kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Family Service$74,50080%
Temple de Hirsch Sinai$71,8506n/a
University of Washington$28,8503n/a
Kline Galland Center$25,00011%
University of Washington Foundation$23,50020%
Anti-Defamation League$13,00040%
Prager University Foundation$8,00040%
Old Dog Haven$7,33340%
Open Window School$7,25050%
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$6,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAkashinga Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Animal Shelter Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJubilee Women's Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSwedish Medical Center Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope the Mission: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe James Storehouse Incorporated: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrain Trauma Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Solomon Schechter: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOceana Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDoney Memorial Pet Clinic Dba Doney Coe Pet Clinic: $1,833 over 2y, 0.8% 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 budgetFriend to Friend-America: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $834 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation

How much does Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation give?
Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $47,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Religion (20%), Education (18%).
Who are Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service ($75k), Temple de Hirsch Sinai ($72k), University of Washington ($29k).
Does Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howard and Frances Keller Family 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 Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Samis Foundation, Lott Foundation.
Where is Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation based?
Howard and Frances Keller Family Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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