Michigan · Private foundation
Keller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $416k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 39
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Keller Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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 | 39 | $412k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $359k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $330k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $341k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $313k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Methodist Community House | $127,000 | 3 | 1% |
| John Ball Zoo | $75,300 | 3 | 0% |
| STEM Greenhouse Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 3% |
| First United Methodist Church | $57,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Blandford Nature Center | $45,200 | 3 | 1% |
| Baxter Community Center | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Westminster Presbyterian Church | $32,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Roosevelt Park Ministries Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Clark Retirement Community Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kent School Services Network | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Keller Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Steelcase Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Keller Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Keller Foundation
- How much does Keller Foundation give?
- Keller Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $416,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Keller Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (9%), Education (7%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Keller Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: United Methodist Community House ($127k), John Ball Zoo ($75k), STEM Greenhouse Inc ($60k).
- Does Keller Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Keller Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Keller Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, The Sebastian Foundation.
- Where is Keller Foundation based?
- Keller Foundation is based in MI.
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