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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.

$563k
Granted FY2026still arriving
20
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$221k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.

Health$1.0MHousing & Shelter$733kEducation$315kPublic Benefit$199kYouth Development$193kArts & Culture$168kRecreation & Sports$136kHuman Services$98kOther$0
02FY2026 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k10 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $396k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$95k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,000
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MICHAEL E THORTON FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DIRECTORS OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: $10k → 32%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%SWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC: $5k → 7%THE MICHAEL E THORTON FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%THE MICHAEL E THORTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE MICHAEL E THORTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE MICHAEL E THORTON FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CT
CA
VA
DE
AZ
NC
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 26 repeat orgs$671k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
51

Total granted

$2.2M
$597k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+16%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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 BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2026 · $251k · revenue +29%
  • MB
    MASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    3× · 2019–2026 · $127k · revenue +509%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +197%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $275k
  • NG
    NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF MASS
    one grant, 2022 · $37k · revenue -28%
  • NB
    NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -27%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
9
Northeastern University
Education
10
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
11
Massachusetts Medical Society

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…

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12
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOME BASE PROGRAM CO MASS GENERAL DEVELOPMENT: $682,388 · OtherHOME BASE PROGRAM CO MASS GENERAL DEVELOPMENTMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER: $296,400 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTERMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $275,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALMASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $126,551 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INCSeton Catholic Preparatory: $100,000 · Other+56 more: $523,283 · Other+56 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $126,000 · EducationUniversity…NICHOLS COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationNICHOLS CO…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationCATHOLIC S…NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $25,000 · EducationNASHOBA BR…+4 more: $11,850 · EducationTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $251,075 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAS…USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $88,086 · Arts & CultureNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $750 · Arts & CultureFISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC: $50,000 · HealthCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $48,160 · HealthFIND THE CAUSE INC: $12,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · HealthCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $84,800 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,003,622Education$282,850Public Safety & Disaster$251,075Arts & Culture$163,836Health$122,660Youth Development$90,000Recreation & Sports$84,800

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 BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $251,075 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $126,551 over 3y, 11% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $126,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $88,086 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $84,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNICHOLS COLLEGE: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL E THORNTON FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $48,160 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF MASS: $36,860 over 1y, 21% of budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $14,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $7,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $5,813 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE FORCE STRATEGIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRM PYLES BOYS CAMP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $250 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncSuffolk Cares Charita…American Tower Corpor…Arbella Insurance Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Aaf Charitable Founda…Boston Bruins Charita…Highland Street Conne…Cambridge Savings Cha…The Bay State Federal…Fidelity Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA26.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 86 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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