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Kelly Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,750
Organizations funded a year
6 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$358k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Kelly Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$15k40%
FY20236$10k50%
FY202211$22k73%
FY202114$17k64%
FY20209$10k44%
FY201913$21k31%
FY201817$15k65%
FY201712$11kn/a
71% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$54kEducation$20kPublic Benefit$9kPhilanthropy$6kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
PA
CT
MO
VA
MD
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Peters Cathedral$34,0508n/a
Emmaus Ministries$10,0001n/a
Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc$8,50022%
Hope on Horseback$2,00011%
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc$1,50020%
Gunnar Project$1,0002n/a
Erie County Law Foundation$89031%
Erie Youth Soccer Association$80030%
Erie Youth Hockey Association$60020%
Randy Faipler Memorial Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Kelly Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Peters Cathedral$34,0508n/a
Emmaus Ministries$10,0001n/a
Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc$8,50022%
Hope on Horseback$2,00011%
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc$1,50020%
Gunnar Project$1,0002n/a
Erie County Law Foundation$89031%
Erie Youth Soccer Association$80030%
Erie Youth Hockey Association$60020%
Randy Faipler Memorial Foundation Inc$5001n/a
PKD Foundation$50010%
Mercyhurst Preparatory School$2501n/a
Krush Fast Pitch Inc$10010%

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kelly Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUncommon Grit Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHope on Horseback: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKnights of Columbus Charities Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetErie County Law Foundation: $890 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetErie Youth Soccer Association: $800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetErie Youth Hockey Association: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPKD Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKrush Fast Pitch Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Wabtec FoundationPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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.

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How do I get to Kelly Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kelly Family Charitable 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.

About Kelly Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Kelly Family Charitable Foundation give?
Kelly Family Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $14,620 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kelly Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (43%), Education (16%), Public Benefit (7%).
Who are Kelly Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Peters Cathedral ($34k), Emmaus Ministries ($10k), Uncommon Grit Foundation Inc ($9k).
Does Kelly Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kelly Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kelly Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wabtec Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Kelly Family Charitable Foundation based?
Kelly Family Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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