· Private foundation
Kelleher Family Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2019–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $396k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER | $221,400 |
| SETON CATHOLIC PREPARATORY | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $50,000 |
| NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME | $50,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $38,800 |
| TEAM IMPACT | $33,900 |
| FIND THE CAUSE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| THE MICHAEL E THORTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $9,800 |
| THE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE | $9,610 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MA NATIONAL GUARD MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–26, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2026, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2026 · $251k · revenue +29%- MBMASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INC3× · 2019–2026 · $127k · revenue +887%
- CHCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $275k
- NGNATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF MASSone grant, 2022 · $37k · revenue -28%
- YIYRF ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Force Strategies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 86 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.
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL E THORNTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF MASS ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FIND THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AHERN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Aaf Charitable Foundation · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation · Fidelity 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kelleher Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.