California · Private foundation
Kellbar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Kellbar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $77k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $75k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $82k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $80k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $76k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $73k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $77k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $73k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation Learning Center | $90,000 | 9 | 4% |
| American Martyrs Catholic Church | $36,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Johns Seminary in California Jackie Rotter | $36,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Loyola Marymount University | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dolores Mission | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Bishop Montgomery High School | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($487k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Kellbar Foundation
- How much does Kellbar Foundation give?
- Kellbar Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $77,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kellbar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Religion (32%), International (12%).
- Who are Kellbar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Presentation Learning Center ($90k), American Martyrs Catholic Church ($36k), St Johns Seminary in California Jackie Rotter ($36k).
- Does Kellbar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kellbar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kellbar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Kellbar Foundation based?
- Kellbar Foundation is based in CA.
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