· Private foundation
Kelly Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $411k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $405k
- $250k+1 grant · $530k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $530,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB BOSTON | $100,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $80,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION - INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $75,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| THE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON | $50,000 |
| DERBY ACADEMY | $46,250 |
| MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP | $40,000 |
| NATIIVITY PREP SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BETHEL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $20,000 |
| BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND | $20,000 |
| THE BASE | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of those 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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- CHCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +208%
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +5%
- TMTHE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC5× · 2020–2024 · $302k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $200k
- MGMASS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $200k
- SASCHOLAR ATHLETES INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -91%
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.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Minds matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
To promote the healthy development of children through the nurturing of continuing, one-to-one friendships with caring, responsible adults, supported by trained professional staff.
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.
By creating supportive relationships between students and volunteer mentors, boston partners in education ensures a more equitable city where every bps student is equipped with the skills, opportunity, and confidence to succeed in the…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 58 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 CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund
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 Inc 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.
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- South Shore Stars Inc — 54% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 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.