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Kelly Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$530k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$3.2MHealth$1.3MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$172kPhilanthropy$165kEmployment$100kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $411k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $405k
  • $250k+1 grant · $530k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON$50,000
THE LEARNING ALLIANCE$50,000
DERBY ACADEMY$46,250
MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP$40,000
CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
NATIIVITY PREP SCHOOL$25,000
BETHEL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$25,000
ST COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL$20,000
THE BASE$20,000
SUMMER SEARCH BOSTON$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SOUTH SHORE STARS: $5k → 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $10k → 11%SOUTH SHORE STARS: $5k → 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $10k → 11%SOUTH SHORE STARS: $5k → 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $10k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $10k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $5k → 11%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 39 repeat orgs$707k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
15

Total granted

$5.9M
$662k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+27%

Still filing today

62%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +208%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +5%
  • TM
    THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $302k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • SA
    SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -91%
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
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

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…

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
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
4
Minds Matter of Boston Inc

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.

Youth Development
5
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc

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.

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7
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
8
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
9
Boston Partners in Education Inc

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…

—
10
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
11
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $770,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENBOYS & GIRLS CLUB BOSTON: $451,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB BOSTONBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $247,500 · OtherBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INCMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $200,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $120,000 · Other+36 more: $1,245,500 · Other+36 moreCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $1,575,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INCTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERS…+2 more: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOO…THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $180,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING A…DERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES: $168,650 · EducationDERBY ACADEMY …BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $100,000 · EducationBOSTON SCHOOLS…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $301,665 · Community ImprovementSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BASEBALL INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsSUMMER SEARCH: $100,000 · Employment
Other$3,234,000Youth Development$1,850,000Education$833,650Community Improvement$301,665Arts & Culture$170,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Employment$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $1,575,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $301,665 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $247,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $180,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetDERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES: $168,650 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $100,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE STARS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • 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 RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 BETHEL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…Rockland Trust - Blue…Highland Street Conne…Fidelity FoundationThe Lynch FoundationYawkey Foundation IIRockland Trust Charit…Cummings Foundation G…Bny Mellon Charitable…
Boston Foundation IncMA28.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 58 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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