Kansas · Private foundation
Kelly Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Kelly Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 72 | $3.9M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $3.8M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $3.0M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $2.5M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $2.8M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $2.5M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $2.3M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 63 | $1.7M | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockhurst High School | $5,066,949 | 9 | n/a |
| Safehome Inc | $1,185,925 | 9 | 11% |
| Heart to Heart International Inc | $1,175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Catholic Education Foundation | $1,150,748 | 9 | n/a |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $675,588 | 9 | 0% |
| Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding Inc | $597,900 | 9 | 17% |
| Afia Holding Company | $500,000 | 4 | 64% |
| Academy for Integrated Arts | $415,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic | $404,375 | 8 | 9% |
| Cristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School | $395,600 | 8 | 6% |
Show all 133 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kelly Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 110 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · George R & Janet E Desko Charitable Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · The Joanna Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
How this is measured
About Kelly Family Foundation
- How much does Kelly Family Foundation give?
- Kelly Family Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $3,973,277 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kelly Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (28%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Kelly Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rockhurst High School ($5.1M), Safehome Inc ($1.2M), Heart to Heart International Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Kelly Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kelly Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kelly Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, George R & Janet E Desko Charitable Foundation, John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees.
- Where is Kelly Family Foundation based?
- Kelly Family Foundation is based in KS.
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