· Private foundation
Kelly Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND FAMILY LITERACY | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKER SOUND | $12,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE TWIN CS PROGRAM | $9,999 |
| GRAND HARBOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $8,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,000 |
| COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER | $7,500 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TAX FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +63%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +70%
COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- BEBrockton Educational Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +55%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +69%
- VBVERO BEACH THEATER GUILDone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Watch Inc Center for Economic Justice. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 85 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds OSTERVILLE FREE LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUXBURY FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DUXBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Brockton Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WICKED GOOD CAUSE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIANNO SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Kelly 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Osterville Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.