· Private foundation
Kelly Family Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k17 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWNWOOD FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,511 |
| BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY | $3,500 |
| EANES EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS | $2,421 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $1,500 |
| TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| CASA IN THE HEART OF TEXAS | $1,000 |
| RANGER COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| BROWNWOOD ART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF BROWNWOOD | $500 |
| TOYS FOR KIDS | $500 |
| DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
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 (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- BCBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue -1%
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $9k
- TTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $6k
Funded once
- CTCENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS MEMORIAL INCone grant, 2018 · $11k
- MOMONTANAS OUTDOOR LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -27%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLORone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +13%
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.
Enrich the lives of students and staff
The Mabank ISD Educational Foundation awarded teaching grants to Mabank ISD teachers and professional staff for the purpose of enhancing the educational process of Mabank ISD and its students.
East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…
To aid in the fulfillment of teaching and service functions of the Bryan Independent School District by providing funds and property.
The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.
Grants to teachers and fund supplies and curriculum to White Oak ISD. Scholarships to White Oak ISD Students.
The Bullard Education Foundation provides opportunities for excellence in education, promotes innovation in teaching, recognizes achievement, and partners with the community to enhance the quality of education for all students.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Promoting excellence in education in the Bonham Independent School District.
to generate funds to support innovative education for students in Blanco ISD
The midland education foundation exists to promote excellence in education by generating and distributing additional resources for the benefit of midland isd students and staff.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and the most unlike its peers is Toys for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWNWOOD ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eanes Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTANAS OUTDOOR LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOVEJOY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Toys for Kids ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
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: United Way Worldwide · E P Woodruff Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma Christian University — 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.