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Jeffrey S Kelly Foundation at a glance

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Jeffrey S 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$140kHousing & Shelter$29kCommunity Improvement$25kHuman Services$21kArts & Culture$20kSocial Science$10kPhilanthropy$5kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$919k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$25,000
LHWOC$10,000
ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE$10,000
SEMPER FI FUND$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DIOCESE OF GREESNBURG: $17k → 10%PITTSBURGH HIRES VETERANS: $3k → 11%STAFF SERGANT ALVIN P CAREY AND PRIVATE JOHN C EWIG MEDAL OF HONOR SCHOLARS: $5k → 16%SEMPER FI FUND: $10k → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%NATIONAL TOOLING & MACHINING FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%THE CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY: $10k → 9%LHWOC: $10k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES: $5k → 16%SEMPER FI FUND: $1k → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%THE CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY: $10k → 9%LHWOC: $10k → 10%DUQUESNSE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25k → 14%CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY: $5k → 9%DELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 10%DUQUESNSE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 11%CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY: $4k → 9%ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE: $5k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE: $3k → 11%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 5 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$95k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+100%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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

  • CN
    CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED
    4× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +46%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    2× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +56%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • DU
    DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • NT
    NATIONAL TOOLING & MACHINING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +460%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
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
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
Daemen University

Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…

Education
3
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
4
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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9
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.

Animals
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit; the most unlike its peers is National Tooling & Machining Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $25,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRITDUQUESNSE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherDUQUESNSE UNIVERSITYLHWOC: $20,000 · OtherLHWOCIndividual grant recipient: $16,667 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherDELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARYALLEGHENY INSTITUTE: $10,000 · OtherALLEGHENY INSTITUTESTAFF SERGANT ALVIN P CAREY AND PRIVATE JOHN C EWIG MEDAL OF HONOR SCHOLARS: $5,000 · OtherSTAFF SERGANT ALVIN P CAREY AND PRIV…CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED: $28,500 · Housing & ShelterCARDINAL NEW…NATIONAL TOOLING & MACHINING FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL T…FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $5,000 · PhilanthropySEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $11,000 · HealthPITTSBURGH HIRES VETERANS: $2,500 · Employment
Education$100,000Other$86,667Housing & Shelter$28,500Community Improvement$25,000Philanthropy$15,000Health$11,000Employment$2,500

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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED: $28,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TOOLING & MACHINING FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH HIRES VETERANS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Jeffrey S Kelly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeffrey S Kelly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 14 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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