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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.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MPublic Benefit$237kHealth$212kEnvironment$157kRecreation & Sports$65kCommunity Improvement$45kHousing & Shelter$39kArts & Culture$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOSTON COLLEGE$10,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTE$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
TAX FOUNDATION$5,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $18k → 7%SOUTH SHORE BALLET: $20k → 8%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $70k → 14%RHODE ISLAND FAMILY LITERACY: $15k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $18k → 7%SOUTH SHORE BALLET: $10k → 8%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $100k → 16%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $60k → 14%RHODE ISLAND FAMILY LITERACY: $10k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $15k → 7%SOUTH SHORE BALLET: $10k → 8%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $100k → 16%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50k → 14%RHODE ISLAND FAMILY LITERACY: $10k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE TWIN CS PROGRAM: $10k → 7%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $100k → 16%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $20k → 14%RHODE ISLAND FAMILY LITERACY: $10k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $100k → 16%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER: $10k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE TWIN CS PROGRAM: $10k → 7%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $100k → 16%COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER: $10k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS PLYMOUTH: $100k → 8%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 16%BOSTON COLLEGE TWIN CS PROGRAM: $10k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS PLYMOUTH: $10k → 8%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 16%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS PLYMOUTH: $10k → 8%BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $40k → 16%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKER SOUND: $20k → 8%ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND: $20k → 8%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKER SOUN: $20k → 8%ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKER SOUN: $19k → 8%HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND: $17k → 8%SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF BOSTON: $35k → 16%ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKER SOUND: $12k → 8%SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF BOSTON: $22k → 16%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH BOSTON: $16k → 16%SISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF BOSTON: $11k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
VA
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 52 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
25

Total granted

$1.9M
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +63%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +70%
  • COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BE
    Brockton Educational Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +55%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +91%
  • VB
    VERO BEACH THEATER GUILD
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 85 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $640,333 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS PLYMOUTH: $160,200 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS PLYMOUTHSISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPH OF BOSTON: $67,900 · OtherCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $60,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND FAMILY LITERACY: $52,788 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE TWIN CS PROGRAM: $47,500 · Other+51 more: $336,998 · Other+51 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $213,300 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGETRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON C…DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC: $37,500 · EducationDUXBURY BAY MARITIME…+8 more: $32,825 · Education+8 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE…TAX FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDATI…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $35,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WAT…ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $128,300 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 · HealthINDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthANSWER TO CANCER INC: $1,100 · Health+3 more: $400 · HealthPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $13,900 · Arts & CultureINDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureDUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $75 · Arts & CultureWIANNO SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,365,719Education$383,625Public Benefit$230,000Environment$129,300Health$30,500Arts & Culture$24,475Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $213,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $128,300 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC: $60,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetDUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC: $37,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $13,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOSTERVILLE FREE LIBRARY CORPORATION: $10,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DUXBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetDUXBURY FREE LIBRARY INC: $8,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBrockton Educational Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWICKED GOOD CAUSE ORGANIZATION INC: $6,900 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWIANNO SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM WATCH INC CENTER FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $2,026 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCO2 COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSTERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON DANCE ALLIANCE INC: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 TAX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • 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 THE DUXBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DUXBURY FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Brockton Educational Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WICKED GOOD CAUSE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds WIANNO SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCAULEY CORPORATION ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Amica Companies Found…Fidelity FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kelly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 85 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home