· Private foundation
Kate M Kelley 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $237,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $261,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $194k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Charities & CC Free Health Clinic | $18,000 |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $13,000 |
| McGuire Memorial Home | $12,000 |
| Bishop Canevin High School | $8,500 |
| North Catholic High School | $8,000 |
| Central Catholic High School | $8,000 |
| Serra Catholic High School | $8,000 |
| Saint Joseph High School | $8,000 |
| Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School | $8,000 |
| Seton LaSalle High School | $8,000 |
| Oakland Catholic High School | $8,000 |
| Holy Family Institute | $6,000 |
| Auberle | $6,000 |
| Saint Bede School | $5,000 |
| Sacred Heart Elementary School | $5,000 |
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.
45 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR4× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +150% · 69% of their budget
- AAUBERLE4× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +36%
- HFHOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE4× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SVSaint Vincent de Paul Society Saint Jude the Apostle Parishone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SJSaint Juan Diego Parish Saint Vincent de Paul Society of Sharpsburgone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BEBishop's Education Fundone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Compelled by the love of christ, vincentian collaborative system nurtures and sustains a ministry of compassionate care that preserves the human dignity of persons within a diverse and changing society.
Vincentian child development center is part of the larger vincentian collaborative system ministries, whose mission statement is: "compelled by the love of christ, vincentian collaborative system nurtures and sustains a ministry of…
Vincentian regency (dba terrace place at vincentian) is part of the larger vincentian collaborative system ministries, whose mission statement is: "compelled by the love of christ, vincentian collaborative system nurtures and sustains a…
Marian manor is part of the larger vincentian collaborative system ministries, whose mission statement is: "compelled by the love of christ, vincentian collaborative system nurtures and sustains a ministry of compassionate care that…
Compelled by the love of christ, vincentian charitable foundation nurtures and sustains a ministry of compassionate care that preserves the human dignity of persons within a diverse and changing society. vcf exists to be a catalyst for…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
Inglis' mission is to enable people with disabilities - and those who care for them - to achieve their goals and live life to the fullest.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
St. vincent's is dedicated to strengthening low-income families and seniors through programs rooted in the social teachings of the catholic church. faithful to the charism of the daughters of charity of st. vincent de paul, we serve our…
We help families build bright futures by providing trauma-informed pediatric behavioral health care within a learning community to change the lives of children and families.
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Poise Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Highmark Health · Centimark Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Mary J Donnelly Foundation · Equitrans Midstream 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.
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