· Public charity
Kelley Family Foundation
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out one or more of the purposes of the foundation of the catholic diocese of columbus.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $245,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $250,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY MOTHER OF GOD PARISH | $100,000 |
| ST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HOLY SPIRIT PARISH | $35,000 |
| HOLY SPIRIT PARISH | $35,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF PEACE | $15,000 |
| CRISTO REY COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL6× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +245%
- SSST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +68%
- CSCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC5× · 2018–2023 · $103k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SCST CHARLES PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $52k
- TCThe Catholic Foundationone grant, 2018 · $30k
- GCGreater Columbus Irish Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Catholic community foundation's mission is to foster faith-based stewardship in the community for spiritual, educational and charitable benefit for all.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
Central benefits health care foundation is a supporting organization of the columbus foundation. the purpose of central benefits healthcare foundation is to exclusively support programs that provide preventative health care to indigent…
To provide social services to those in need, focusing on nine areas: behavioral health, family stabilization & success, guardianship, hispanic outreach, pregnancy & parenting, refugee resettlement, services for older adults, supervised…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Columbus foundation, inc. supports columbus community center in creating community partnerships and entrepreneurial opportunities that enable individuals with disabilities to achieve the highest level of independence possible. the…
To strengthen underserved neighborhoods and improve lives through innovative financing.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
We, st. francis foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.st. francis foundation is a member of st. francis healthcare and trinity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Stephen Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Partnership Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 25 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 BISHOP GRIFFIN RESOURCE CENTER SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds ST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds WORLD PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Columbus Foundation · Margaret and Robert Walter Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Cardinal Health Foundation · Mount Carmel Health System 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 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 or a single department — 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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