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James F Kelly and Fernande Kelly Charitable at a glance

· Private foundation

James F Kelly and Fernande Kelly Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$33kHousing & Shelter$18kEducation$17kHealth$8kYouth Development$2kRecreation & Sports$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$189k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA$4,250
CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$4,100
HARBOR HOMES INC$4,100
SURRY VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL$3,500
GREATER WAKEFIELD RESOURCE CENTER$1,500
CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND NH$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE$1,000
KEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE$1,000
HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE &$750
LEDYARD CHARTER SCHOOL$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%RISE AGAIN OUTREACH: $2k → 7%GREATER WAKEFIELD RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $2k → 7%RISE AGAIN OUTREACH: $1k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $500 → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%CROTCHED MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $4k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $4k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $2k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $1k → 7%STEPPING STONES: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 9 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$56k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+41%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HH
    Harbor Homes Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +26%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua
    4× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +62%
  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    3× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • HM
    HIGH MOWING SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%
  • EH
    EXETER HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +1%
  • G
    GYO
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
2
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
3
Mountain Village Charter School

Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.

Education
4
St Peter's Home

To provide day care services to children in the manchester, new hampshire area.

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5
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Catholic Medical Center

The heart of Catholic Medical Center is to carry out Christ's healing ministry by offering health, healing, and hope to every individual who seeks our care.

Health
7
Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc
Health
8
Helping Hands Outreach Ministries Inc

Transitional and permanent supportive housing - provides shelter in the greater Manchester NH area. Services include housing, counseling (including substance abuse counseling), job search assistance, etc.

Housing & Shelter
9
Dartmouth Health Home Care Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

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10
Home Health and Hospice Care

Home Health and Hospice Care provides trusted patient centered services that enhance each individual's independence and quality throughout life.

Health
11
The Homestead Inc
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12
CityHope of New Hampshire

CityHope walks with individuals and families, empowering and equipping them with the necessary resources and skills needed to thrive in their communities. By providing support services to those experiencing financial hardships and housing…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keene Housing Kids Collaborative; the most unlike its peers is Greater Wakefield Resource Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $10,834 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greate…Crotched Mountain Foundation: $10,100 · Human ServicesCrotched Mountain FoundationNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $3,600 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catholic CharitiesRISE AGAIN OUTREACH INC: $3,094 · Human ServicesRISE AGAIN OUTREACH INCSTEPPING STONES: $2,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONESGREATER WAKEFIELD RESOURCE CENTER: $1,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND NH: $3,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP …HOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE &: $2,750 · OtherHOME HEALTHCARE HOSPICE…GYO: $2,000 · OtherGYOSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $2,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW HA…THE CAREGIVERS INC: $2,000 · OtherTHE CAREGIVERS INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…New Generation Inc: $1,200 · OtherNew Generation IncTHE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $1,000 · OtherTHE MENTAL HEALTH CENTE…COLONIAL THEATRE KEENE: $1,000 · OtherCOLONIAL THEATRE KEENESURRY VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationSURRY VILLAGE CHAR…HIGH MOWING SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationHIGH MOWING SCHOOLMount Royal Academy Inc: $1,200 · EducationMount Royal Academ…LEDYARD CHARTER SCHOOL: $500 · EducationHarbor Homes Inc: $11,900 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes IncVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS: $1,200 · Housing & ShelterVISIONS FOR CREATI…EXETER HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 · HealthKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE: $3,200 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$31,128Other$16,750Education$13,700Housing & Shelter$13,100Health$4,000Crime & Legal$3,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarbor Homes Inc: $11,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua: $10,834 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCrotched Mountain Foundation: $10,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSURRY VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH MOWING SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXETER HOSPITAL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEENE HOUSING KIDS COLLABORATIVE: $3,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRISE AGAIN OUTREACH INC: $3,094 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Generation Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEDYARD CHARTER SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Cogswell Benevolent T…Arthur L Getz Charita…Ann de Nicola TuwEversource Energy Fou…Lizzie J Cheney Chari…Marion C Cohen Trust …Saul O Sidore Memoria…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Eastern Bank Foundati…
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Ann de Nicola Tuw · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Lizzie J Cheney Charitable Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Marion C Cohen Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Eastern Bank 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James F Kelly and Fernande Kelly Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James F Kelly and Fernande Kelly Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Exeter Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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