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Kelen Family Foundation at a glance

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Kelen Family Foundation

This organization is organized for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of the minneapolis federation for jewish services & the jewish community foundation.

$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$734kReligion$347kPhilanthropy$267kHuman Services$110kPublic Benefit$80kCivil Rights$47kHousing & Shelter$15kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $120,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $135,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIAS$30,000
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (JDC)$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN HILLEL$10,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE (IRC)$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION$10,000
HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS$10,000
JEWISH COMM RELATIONS COUNCIL (JCRC)$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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERV: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERV: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICE: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICE: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICE: $13k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICE: $13k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICE: $10k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$1.0M
$393k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+33%

Still filing today

90%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationInternationalHealthReligionEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +24%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +94%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +307%

Funded once

  • LT
    LEARN TO LIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +61%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $105k · revenue +62%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THOMAS LOWRY PARK MINNESOTA NON-PROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -66%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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3
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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4
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
5
The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation

The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…

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6
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
7
Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Hillel Center for Jewish Life At University of Md

Enhance the lives of jewish students as that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. hillel actively seeks to engage jewish students on their own terms, to provide them with opportunities to participate in jewish life.

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8
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
9
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
10
United Israel Appeal Inc

The principal function of uia is to administer and supervise the funds allocated for philanthropic purposes related to immigration and absorption of humanitarian migrants to israel and jewish identity programs in israel and the former…

International
11
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
12
The Jerusalem Connection
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $223,600 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distrib…HIAS INC: $180,000 · InternationalHIAS INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $80,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee IN…TEMPLE ISRAEL: $200,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $80,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATION…MINNESOTA HILLEL: $41,500 · OtherMINNESOTA HILLELJ-HAP INC: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $32,200 · Other+4 moreLEARN TO LIVE: $250,000 · HealthLEARN TO LIVEMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $216,667 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS JEW…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $110,000 · Human ServicesHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $105,000 · ReligionUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $17,200 · EducationROOM TO READ: $6,000 · Education
International$483,600Other$368,700Health$250,000Philanthropy$216,667Human Services$110,000Religion$105,000Education$93,200

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 budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $223,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $216,667 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHIAS INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $110,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $105,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $80,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL: $41,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $17,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJ-HAP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THOMAS LOWRY PARK MINNESOTA NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetROOM TO READ: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Minneapolis Found…The Rum FundMike & Linda Fiterman…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…The Richard & Rossy S…Oren and Sharron Stei…The Richard & Diane C…Roger and Myra Greenb…Edward J Phillips Fam…Marshall & Elaine Sie…The Lynn and Gloria J…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Rum Fund · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard & Rossy Shaller Family Foundation · Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation · The Richard & Diane Cohen Family Foundation · Roger and Myra Greenberg Family Foundation · Edward J Phillips Family Foundation · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · The Lynn and Gloria Johnson Family 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 Kelen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kelen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kelen Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 18 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 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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