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Kelly Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$9.4MHealth$6.9MHuman Services$2.2MInternational$1.7MFood & Nutrition$834kHousing & Shelter$758kReligion$593kPhilanthropy$506kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $632k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KU Endowment$500,000
Rockhurst High School$499,339
The Bement School$290,000
Safehome Inc$270,925
Sea Island Hunger Awareness Fund$225,000
Stratton Foundation$220,000
Gabriel Project KC$207,500
Barrier Island Free Medical Clinic$200,925
Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding$150,000
Catholic Education Foundation$125,000
Turn 90$100,000
Heart to Heart International$75,000
Robin Hood Foundation$75,000
Alliance for Suicide Prevention$70,000
Children's Mercy Kansas City$50,588
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Northampton Survival Center: $25k → 12%Ryan's Case for Smiles: $10k → 6%Savage Sisters Recovery Inc: $10k → 10%Little Essentials: $10k → 20%Testicular Cancer Foundation: $5k → 10%JOURNEY HOUSE: $4k → 17%Northampton Survival Center: $25k → 12%AMHERST SURVIVAL CENTER: $20k → 12%ERIC'S CAMP FUND: $100 → 5%Florence Crittenton Programs of SC: $20k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs of SC: $20k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs of SC: $20k → 12%PROJECT 1020: $25k → 5%Respite Care Charleston: $200 → 12%Unbound: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH: $25k → 15%Safehome Inc: $550k → 5%Safehome Inc: $271k → 5%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH: $15k → 15%SAFEHOME: $65k → 5%Safehome Inc: $50k → 5%SAFEHOME: $50k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $5k → 15%Safehouse: $50k → 5%SAFEHOME: $50k → 5%Kansas City Hospice: $5k → 15%SAFEHOME: $50k → 5%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH: $15k → 15%Safehome Inc: $50k → 5%Kansas City Hospice: $5k → 15%Kansas City Hospice: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $5k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $100 → 15%Uplift Organization Inc: $20k → 15%Uplift Organization Inc: $20k → 15%THE HEALING HOUSE: $100 → 15%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

VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 108 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

108 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
100

Total granted

$22M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+14%

Still filing today

59%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SI
    SAFEHOME INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +49%
  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +52%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $676k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • GP
    Gabriel Project
    one grant, 2021 · $650k
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +6%
  • KC
    KU Cancer Center
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
4
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
9
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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10
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
11
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
12
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project 10 20 Inc. 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

123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 229 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/123
Grantees still filing
85/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL: $5,066,949 · OtherROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOLKU Endowment: $1,625,009 · OtherKU EndowmentGabriel Project KC: $1,404,139 · OtherGabriel Project KCCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,150,748 · OtherCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONGabriel Project: $650,000 · Other+132 more: $6,457,805 · Other+132 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $675,588 · HealthThe Childr…CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $597,900 · HealthCHARLESTON…BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $404,375 · HealthBARRIER IS…KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $190,000 · HealthKVC HEALTH…NOORA HEALTH: $105,000 · HealthINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $95,000 · Health+12 more: $223,200 · Health+12 moreAFIA HOLDING COMPANY: $500,000 · EducationAFIA HOLD…ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS: $415,000 · EducationACADEMY F…THE BEMENT SCHOOL INC: $320,000 · EducationTHE BEMEN…Benedictine College: $270,000 · EducationBenedicti…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $210,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…The Kansas University Endowment Association: $200,000 · EducationThe Kansa…+9 more: $126,000 · Education+9 moreSAFEHOME INC: $1,185,925 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $60,000 · Human Services+13 more: $229,150 · Human ServicesHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,175,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 · InternationalTRIDENT UNITED WAY: $200,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyKiawah Cares Foundation: $55,450 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWESTWOOD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropySea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $380,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $12,650 · Food & Nutrition
Other$16,354,650Health$2,291,063Education$2,041,000Human Services$1,540,075International$1,265,000Philanthropy$536,450Food & Nutrition$392,650

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSAFEHOME INC: $1,185,925 over 9y, 11% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $675,588 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $597,900 over 9y, 17% of budgetAFIA HOLDING COMPANY: $500,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS: $415,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $404,375 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $395,600 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetSea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $380,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetSea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc: $376,100 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE BEMENT SCHOOL INC: $320,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $270,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $210,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $190,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY: $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTURN90: $120,150 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $105,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetNOORA HEALTH: $105,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMy Sisters House: $100,600 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $95,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJourney to New Life INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMON SCHOOL INC: $75,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTOUT STREET FOUNDATION: $62,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCedar Cove Feline Conservation Park: $57,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCity Union Mission: $55,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKiawah Cares Foundation: $55,450 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CARE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTransformations Youth Group: $50,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHNC LIVING FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School: $35,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $31,000 over 6y, 0.3% 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 SAFEHOME INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds AFIA HOLDING COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Benedictine College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds TURN90 ↗
  • Who funds LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds NOORA HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds My Sisters House ↗
  • Who funds INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…George R & Janet E De…John J Sullivan Jr Fo…United Way of Greater…Coastal Community Fou…Constance M Cooper Ch…The H & R Block Found…Jewish Community Foun…Beyond Our Gates Foun…John W and Effie E Sp…The Joanna FoundationEwing Marion Kauffman…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO48.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 · 70%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Servicenet Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Center for New Americans Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Survival Centers Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Downtown Amherst Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 229 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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