How much did KELLY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of KELLY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

responsevirtualemergency wildfireswildfires caldorcaldor firefire reliefsocial

2022

careerlivingstudentssummerequipmentwholeleadership

2023

majoradditionalstays wraparoundrivercampsummersuccess

2024

rescuefarmfood bankwildlifeunhousedwellempowering

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $70k
$10k–50k73 grants · $1.2M
$50k–250k1 grant · $120k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants

WOMENS EMPOWERMENT$120,000
SACRAMENTO LITERACY FOUNDATION$40,000
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES$30,000
NORCAL SERVICES FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING$25,000
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL SACRAMENTO$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SACRAMENTO$25,000
YOLO FOOD BANK$25,000
HOPE COOPERATIVE$25,000
SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND$25,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
MERCY HOUSING$25,000
SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE$20,000
MEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY$20,000
COLLEGE TRACK$20,000
KVIE$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $801k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 63 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$584k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+122%

Still filing today

59%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE
4× · 2021–2024 · $248k · revenue +27%
WE
WOMENS EMPOWERMENT
4× · 2021–2024 · $195k · revenue +111%
YC
YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +314%

Funded once

CW
CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue +194%
AR
AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +52%
RO
REDCROSS OF NORTHERN CA
one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Childrens Receiving Home

The Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento is committed to positively impacting the lives of children, youth, and families affected by abuse, neglect, behavioral health issues, and trauma in California.

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Sacramento Steps Forward

To end homelessness through leadership, convening partners, data-driven best practices, and improving system performance.

Human Services

Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of

The Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce advocates for and supports economic success of its members and the six-county capital region by leading the effort to grow and retain business.

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FosterHope Sacramento

To provide certified residential care and treatment of foster care children placed through county welfare departments under the provision of the california welfare and institutions code

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California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education

Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau

Provide convention and visitors bureau services

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The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund mission is to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada. We rely on the principles of science, stewardship, environmental justice, and policy advocacy to promote headwater resiliency for the…

Environment

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

Family Promise of Sacramento

To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…

Education

California Forward

California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.

Public Benefit

Sacramento Tree Foundation

The Sacramento Tree Foundation is a community benefit organization working to grow thriving communities through stewardship of our urban forest

Environment

Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley &

To provide life-changing services to our community

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Foundry and the most unlike its peers is Convoy of Hope. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/87

the rest of the field

11%

1,586/14,862

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.

05the grantee network

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/87

Grantees still filing

74/87

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,706,660Human Services$905,500Education$375,000Health$281,700Environment$165,000Food & Nutrition$115,000Arts & Culture$102,500

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.

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.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA106.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way California Capital · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Safe Credit Union · Pfund Family Foundation · Placer Community Foundation · California Foundation For · Dignity Health · Umpqua Bank Charitable 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 organisation KELLY 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 843972195 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Kelly Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kelly Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

KELLY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Kelly Foundation?

More from the funding graph

KELLY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Kelly Foundation?

More from the funding graph