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Kelley Family Christian Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lipscomb Univ | $30,000 |
| Christian Family Svc | $15,000 |
| Hillside Hope Inc | $5,000 |
| Family Life Missions | $2,500 |
| Hillside Hope Inc | $800 |
| Shults-Lewis Child & Family Services | $300 |
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 (FY22–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Kelley Family Christian Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 5% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- FLFamily Life Missions Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +15%
- HWHOPE WORKS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +97%
- FHFAMILY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $23k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- HFHOUSING FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +146%
- GCGospel Chariot Missionone grant, 2019 · $10k
- GKGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +32%
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.
To rescue the next generation. This organization provides a stable and loving christian home for displaced children. The care of these children includes food, shelter, education and faith based activities.
His house children's home is a faith-based organization that restores the lives of children and families.
Hope Homes International is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes to serve poor, distressed, and underprivileged populations in the United States and abroad by providing affordable, scholarship-based childcare and…
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
To promote gods glory through missions.
Living hope international (lhi) is a faith-based organization with a three-fold mission. our goals are to: provide for underprivileged children and families by establishing orphanages, schools, and outreach programs throughout the world.…
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.
Provides children in kenya that have been literally thrown away by their parents a new loving home-(not orphanage or boarding house) with a mother, father and siblings. they are also put into the top school in the city and given a first…
Organization operates a children's home in Honduras that provides food, clothing, shelter, medical care and education to abused and abandonded children in need.
Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.
Providing educational and religious support to orphanage children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Heritage Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lipscomb University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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 Family Life Missions Inc ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AND MERCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT HAND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SHULTS-LEWIS CHILD & FAMILY SVCS I ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kelley Family Christian Charitable 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.
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.
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