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Keller Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$233kReligion$232kInternational$51kCrime & Legal$27kEducation$7kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
$7,800
Median grant
6
States reached
$603k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRIEF & LOSS CTR OF N TX$14,500
GATEWAY OF GRACE$12,000
LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$12,000
COOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP$12,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
FAITH COMMONS$7,800
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$2,000
GOOD FAITH MEDIA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $12k → 5%LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $12k → 5%LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $3k → 5%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$570k · 16 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
2

Total granted

$570k
$2k

Still filing today

44%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionEducationHealthOther
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

  • GO
    GATEWAY OF GRACE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $109k · revenue +10%
  • BI
    BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2018–2022 · $31k · revenue +150%
  • LO
    LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • G
    GIVECAMPUS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
Global Faith Network
Human Services
2
Good Faith Network Inc

Good Faith Network Inc develops theological content to guide Christians in their life in the secular world. The range of topics covered by Good Faith Network content will be vast, but will generally center around the intersection of…

Religion
3
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
4
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
5
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
6
Free Grace International

Create content that shares jesus' message

Religion
7
Faithful America

The largest online community of christians putting faith into action for social justice. continued on schedule o

Civil Rights
8
Christian Immigration Advocacy Cent

Provide high-quality legal services in a compassionate, incarnational, and culturally-appropriate way and empower churches to serve their sojourner neighbors well through collaborative partnerships.

Human Services
9
The Grace Message

The Grace Message exists to share the hope and encouragement found in the New Covenant message of Gods grace by helping people embrace the finished work of Christ, walk in their new identity, and enjoy freedom from lifeless religion.

Religion
10
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
11
Imago Dei Ministries
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12
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America Cathedral Church of St Paul

Religious

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Light of Hope Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is The Preemptive Love Coalition. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRIEF & LOSS CTR OF N TX: $122,500 · OtherGRIEF & LOSS CTR OF N TXIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INC: $70,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INCWILSHIRE BAPTIST CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+6 more: $11,010 · OtherGATEWAY OF GRACE: $108,528 · Human ServicesGATEWAY OF GRACEBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $31,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONALLIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $27,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CE…FAITH COMMONS: $24,300 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST: $1,000 · ReligionTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $20,000 · HealthDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · Education
Other$355,010Human Services$166,528Religion$25,300Health$20,000Education$6,000

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 budgetGATEWAY OF GRACE: $108,528 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $27,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFAITH COMMONS: $24,300 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGood Faith Media Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds GATEWAY OF GRACE ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF HOPE IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAITH COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds THE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Good Faith Media Inc ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP SOUTHWEST ↗

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.

Eula Mae and John Baugh FoundationTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Keller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Keller Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Keller 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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