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Kelley Family Foundation at a glance

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Kelley Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$175kHousing & Shelter$70kHuman Services$69kArts & Culture$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kAnimals$6kHealth$500Recreation & Sports$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AEROSPACE MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA$30,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$25,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO$22,500
HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION$20,000
CROCKER ART MUEUM ASSOCIATION$2,500
THE PLACER COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$1,000
KOHALA HIGH SCHOOL$600
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $10k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $10k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer County: $5k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer County: $5k → 6%CHILD ADVOCATES OF PLACER COUNTY: $1k → 6%The Taylor House: $5k → 6%THE TAYLOR HOUSE: $2k → 6%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Kelley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 58%.

Kelley Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 10 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$354k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+4%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • AM
    Aerospace Museum of California
    5× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +102%
  • CO
    CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter
    5× · 2018–2022 · $31k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • CR
    Cristo Rey High School Sacramento
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • TJ
    THE JIM SAUNDERS FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -11%
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
3
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
4
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
5
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
6
American University

To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.

Education
7
California State Student Association

CSSA as a student-led organization strives to improve the lives of California State University (CSU) students by advocating for student needs and engaging students in systemwide, state, and federal higher education policy making.

Education
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
Cabrillo Education Foundation

Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…

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10
California State University Alumni Association

Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

Education
11
Turlock Education Opportunity Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Placer Yuba and Sutter; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

California Homebuilding Foundation: $70,000 · EducationCalifornia Homebuilding FoundationTexas A&M Foundation: $50,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · EducationJesuit High School: $51,000 · OtherJesuit High SchoolAerospace Museum of California: $47,500 · OtherAerospace Museum of CaliforniaST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOLCristo Rey High School Sacramento: $10,000 · OtherCristo Rey High School Sacramento+2 more: $850 · OtherCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $31,200 · Human ServicesCASA of Placer…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…SUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORTING THE…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO: $31,000 · Community ImprovementASSISTANC…+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $6,000 · AnimalsCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JIM SAUNDERS FUND: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · Health
Education$151,000Other$139,350Human Services$48,200Community Improvement$31,500Animals$6,000Arts & Culture$2,500Philanthropy$2,000Health$500

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 budgetCalifornia Homebuilding Foundation: $70,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAerospace Museum of California: $47,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $31,200 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SACRAMENTO: $31,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCristo Rey High School Sacramento: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JIM SAUNDERS FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 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.

Sacramento Region Com…Baird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Kelley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%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
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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