· Private foundation
Kelly Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETER'S CATHEDRAL | $6,750 |
| UNCOMMON GRIT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $1,000 |
| ST LUKES | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| GUNNAR PROJECT | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| ST PATRICK'S CHURCH | $100 |
| CATECHETICAL SISTERS OF AROGYAMATHA | $100 |
| SERRA CLUB | $70 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPST PETERS CATHEDRAL8× · 2017–2024 · $34k
- CPCATHEDRAL PREP HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $20k
- UGUNCOMMON GRIT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- EMEMMAUS MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SJST JUDES CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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.
The Foundations mission is to advance maritime education promote youth and intercollegiate sailing and expand opportunities in boating.
The organization exists to teach and promote the game of baseball in an environment that fosters competition and individual development. instills the importance of being part of a team, and readies players for high school baseball through…
The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce
To provide emergency medical services with advanced and basic life support capabilities, ambulance transportation services, and providing trained personnel to assist local fire departments.
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
Youth baseball leagues and training
To provide youth with healthy, fun and competitive sports.
Erie Cheer Boosters, Inc. is organized to support the athletes, parents, coaches, and administrative staff of The Erie High School Cheer program by raising funds, conducting events, and recruiting volunteers.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kelly Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelly Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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