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Kelly Cares Foundation
The KELLY CARES FOUNDATION strengthens communities and inspires hope by investing resources to improve health & education.
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.
The 2 grants below total $30,451 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,482 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,031 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BASKET OF HOPE LOUISIANA | $10,451 |
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 (FY18–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +40%- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AUALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INCone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +6%
- CACHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +18%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +204%
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.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.
We, st. joseph's hospital health center foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.st. joseph's hospital health center foundation is…
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Declan Drumm Sullivan Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 34 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF SAINT JOSEPH REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DECLAN DRUMM SULLIVAN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLTZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARA PARSEGHIAN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND PARENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Our Lady of the Lake Foundation ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc ↗
- Who funds BASKET OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 3RD AND GOAL FOUNDATION ATTN BRIAN VEITH ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC ↗
- Who funds 525 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Joseph County Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds JASON KINZLER FAMILY FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEALTH SERVICES OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLEMEN & SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE POLICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S HOUSE INC ↗
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: University of Notre Dame du Lac · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Community Foundation of Elkhart County Inc · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Elkhart General Hospital Inc · Memorial Hospital of South Bend Inc · The Leep Foundation Inc · Schwartz Wiekamp Foundation · The Specialized Staffing Charitable Foundation Inc · Crossroads United Way Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
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 Kelly Cares 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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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