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Kellett Family Foundation at a glance

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Kellett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$151kHousing & Shelter$114kHuman Services$113kHealth$97kEducation$53kInternational$50kPhilanthropy$46kYouth Development$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,650
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVEST HOPE$8,000
MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES$8,000
INTERFACE MINISTRIES$7,000
COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION OF MADISON COUNTY$5,300
MERCURY ONE INC$5,300
GHS OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY KELLETT SCHOLARSHIP$4,800
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ATLANTA$4,000
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL$3,600
TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$3,500
FAITH MEMORIAL CHAPEL$3,500
ATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION$3,300
CARING WORKS$3,300
COMPASS HARBOR$3,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$2,800
SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES$2,700
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 (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $3k → 12%CARING WORKS: $3k → 14%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $3k → 12%CARING WORKS: $3k → 14%CROWDED TABLE: $4k → 14%CARING WORKS: $3k → 14%CROWDED TABLE: $3k → 14%TOKO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%CROWDED TABLE: $2k → 14%TOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $4k → 14%TOKO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $2k → 14%HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT: $1k → 10%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 14%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $10k → 10%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 14%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $9k → 10%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $4k → 14%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $8k → 10%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $8k → 10%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES: $2k → 14%SAFE HARBOR: $3k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $2k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $2k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $10k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $9k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $2k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $3k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $3k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $2k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $2k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $1k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $1k → 10%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

MN
NY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
GA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$652k · 46 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
43

Total granted

$652k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+9%

Still filing today

57%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +115%
  • CS
    Cancer Support Community - Atlanta Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +26%
  • MV
    MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • CV
    Coles Victory Lap
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -8%
  • PP
    PENDLETON PLACE CHILDRENS SHELTER
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -13%
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
United Housing Connections

We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.

Community Improvement
2
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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3
Hope Missions of the Upstate

HOPE Missions exists for all who are marginalized and living in poverty to experience acceptance in Christ, live in sustainable housing, and joyfully engage in supportive community.

Religion
4
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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5
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes

To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.

Health
6
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
7
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
8
Developmental Disabilities Management Assistance Inc

Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.

Human Services
9
Shalom House Ministries Inc

Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.

Health
10
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
11
The Cooperative Ministry

The organization's mission is to increase the economic self-sufficiency of people experiencing poverty in the Midlands through crisis assistance and sustainability programs. The Ministry provides guidance, counseling, referrals, and direct…

Human Services
12
Regenesis Health Care Inc

We strive to give health services to residents in and around the spartanburg, cherokee, and union sc areas. we believe that services to families can make a difference in the community, helping neighbors move towards healthier lifestyles…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Kijabe. 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, 2017–2025.

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. 52 of the 99 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $29,983 · OtherTRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCGHS - KELLETT SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT: $29,175 · OtherGHS - KELLETT SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENTDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $26,500 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTERFAITH MEMORIAL CHAPEL: $19,984 · OtherFAITH MEMORIAL CHAPELPROJECT MAIN STREET - HODGES FAMILY TRUST: $18,900 · OtherCHILDREN OF PROMISE: $16,000 · OtherHALOS: $14,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,150 · OtherHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $15,750 · Other+56 more: $189,175 · Other+56 moreMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $34,250 · Human ServicesMILL VILLAGE MINISTRI…PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $29,800 · Human ServicesPLEASANT VALLEY CONNE…SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $27,725 · Human ServicesSALAMA URBAN MINISTRI…SAFE HARBOR INC: $21,825 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INCTOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $10,450 · Human ServicesTOCO HILLS COMMUNITY …CaringWorks Inc: $9,250 · Human ServicesCaringWorks IncCROWDED TABLE: $8,925 · Human ServicesCROWDED TABLE+5 more: $13,200 · Human Services+5 moreCancer Support Community - Atlanta Inc: $39,000 · HealthCancer Suppor…GATEWAY HOUSE INC: $15,000 · HealthGATEWAY HOUSE…ATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION INC: $14,700 · HealthATLANTA CANCE…CAROLINA PREGNANCY CENTER: $12,000 · HealthCAROLINA PREG…Coles Victory Lap: $8,500 · HealthColes Victory…+3 more: $6,800 · Health+3 moreUNITED MINISTRIES: $31,100 · ReligionUNITED MI…INTERFACE MINISTRIES INC: $19,250 · ReligionINTERFACE…721 MINISTRIES INC: $9,075 · Religion721 MINIS…MINISTRY OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · ReligionMINISTRY …WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $39,783 · InternationalMercury One Inc: $5,300 · InternationalCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc: $26,850 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES OF HOPE INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterCompass Harbor: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterHands on Atlanta Inc: $14,000 · PhilanthropyDABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION: $8,300 · PhilanthropyCAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$373,917Human Services$155,425Health$96,000Religion$64,425International$45,083Housing & Shelter$42,850Philanthropy$29,300

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 budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $39,783 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Support Community - Atlanta Inc: $39,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $34,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $31,100 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $29,983 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION: $29,800 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetSALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $27,725 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc: $26,850 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $26,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $21,825 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetINTERFACE MINISTRIES INC: $19,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $15,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION INC: $14,700 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAROLINA PREGNANCY CENTER: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $10,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCaringWorks Inc: $9,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budget721 MINISTRIES INC: $9,075 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCROWDED TABLE: $8,925 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetColes Victory Lap: $8,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION: $8,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $7,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS TRAINING CENTER: $5,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDAVIDS TABLE INC: $5,750 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMercury One Inc: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINISTRY OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR REFORMED THEOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Kijabe: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCompass Harbor: $3,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWITCH: $2,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJULIE VALENTINE CENTER: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $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 WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Support Community - Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds TRANSYLVANIA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds SALAMA URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Housing Coalition of Madison County Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFACE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA CANCER CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hands on Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TOCO HILLS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CaringWorks Inc ↗
  • Who funds 721 MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CROWDED TABLE ↗
  • Who funds Coles Victory Lap ↗
  • Who funds DABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗

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.

Scsymmes FoundationThe Jolley FoundationSouth Carolina Christ…United Community Bank…United Way of Greenvi…Daniel-Mickel Foundat…Scansource Charitable…St Francis Hospital I…Dabo's All in Team Fo…Yeargin FoundationSisk Foundation Bunco…Central Carolina Comm…
Scsymmes FoundationMO34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scsymmes Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Central Carolina Community 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 Kellett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kellett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kellett Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kellett 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 99 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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