· 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $9k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,000 |
| CAPITAL TIMES KIDS FUND | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2018–2021 · $39k · revenue +45%
American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc4× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +65%- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- UFUW FOUNDATION TRANSPLANT FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
- NANUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -57%
- FTFUTURE TRADITIONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
World dairy expo is the premier forum for the global dairy community to learn, share, create commerce and showcase competition.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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The mission of the united states national committee of the international dairy federation is to represent the us dairy sector worldwide by providing the best global source of scientific expertise and knowledge in support of the development…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 28 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF WI INC ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
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: The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun · Green Bay Packers Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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