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Kelly Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Housing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$859kFood & Nutrition$710kEducation$500kPublic Safety & Disaster$468kYouth Development$453kEnvironment$245kOther$0
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $795k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOLO FOOD BANK$175,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SACRAMENTO$125,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
SACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION$75,000
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME$75,000
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL SACRAMENTO$75,000
WOMENS EMPOWERMENT$70,000
MERCY HOUSING$50,000
HOMERISE$50,000
RIVER CITY FOOD BANK$45,000
COLLEGE TRACK$35,000
ALCHEMIST CDC$35,000
EASTER SEALS SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA$35,000
TLCS INC DBA HOPE COOPERATIVE$25,000
IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $15k → 6%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $10k → 14%THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FREEDOM CENTER: $7k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 10%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $15k → 6%LOVED TWICE: $5k → 10%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $15k → 6%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $10k → 6%CANINE COMPANIONS: $10k → 9%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $100k → 16%CANINE COMPANIONS: $10k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS: $10k → 9%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $100k → 12%CANINE COMPANIONS: $10k → 9%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $25k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $20k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $10k → 16%FORGOTTEN SOLDIER PROGRAM: $5k → 6%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $10k → 12%WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $7k → 12%WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $20k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $20k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $15k → 12%HOPE CENTERS UNITED DBA FOLSOM'S HOPE: $15k → 12%HOPE CENTERS UNITED DBA FOLSOM'S HOPE: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $110k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $75k → 12%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 12%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 12%UPLIFT PEOPLE OF ELK GROVE: $5k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $215k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $120k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $100k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $20k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $20k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $8k → 12%STANFORD SETTLEMENT INC: $15k → 12%STANFORD SETTLEMENT: $10k → 12%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE: $20k → 12%AGING UP: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 88 repeat orgs$836k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

88 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
59

Total granted

$5.8M
$584k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+4%

Still filing today

84%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2021–2025 · $353k · revenue +27%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $343k · revenue +145%
  • SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $268k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • RO
    REDCROSS OF NORTHERN CA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY - DEL ORO DIVISION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • YF
    YOLO FAMILY POVERY REDUCTION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

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.

1
Sacramento Steps Forward

The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…

Human Services
2
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
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
5
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
6
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
7
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
8
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
9
California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified
10
Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc

Changing lives every day by maximizing our resources to help people with barriers achieve self-sufficiency.

Employment
11
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is 916 Ink. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr14%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr14%30%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/126
the rest of the field
13%
1,868/14,823

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.

04the grantee network

125 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 162 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/125
Grantees still filing
83/125
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc — $342,500 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento IncMERCY HOUSING — $205,000 · OtherMERCY HOUSINGCristo Rey High School Sacramento — $190,000 · OtherCristo Rey High School Sacramento+93 more — $2,317,750 · Other+93 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $352,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cro…SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE — $267,500 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR …SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $195,000 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOM…Yolo Crisis Nursery — $175,000 · Human ServicesYolo Crisis NurserySACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES — $157,500 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHE…STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES — $110,000 · Human ServicesSTANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS …PRIDE Industries — $55,000 · Human Services+14 more — $197,500 · Human Services+14 moreWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT — $265,000 · EducationWOMEN'S EM…COLLEGE TRACK — $80,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TR…Sacramento Literacy Foundation — $60,000 · EducationSacramento…The Climate Center — $35,000 · EducationThe Climat…Foster Youth Education Fund — $25,000 · Education+11 more — $158,910 · Education+11 moreEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA — $205,000 · HealthEASTER SEA…SUTTER DAVIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthSUTTER DAV…SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC — $70,000 · HealthSOCIETY FO…NORCAL SERVICES FOR DEAF & HARD OF HEARING — $70,000 · HealthNORCAL SER…KEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE — $57,500 · HealthKEATON'S C…TLCS INC — $45,000 · HealthTLCS INCSacramento Life Center Inc — $35,000 · HealthSacramento…+5 more — $39,200 · Health+5 moreYOLO FOOD BANK — $210,000 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $55,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY — $30,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LITERACY CENTER — $25,000 · Food & NutritionSACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 · Community ImprovementRIVER CITY FOOD BANK — $85,000 · Community ImprovementALCHEMIST CDC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementProject Access Inc — $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $85,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY — $35,000 · EnvironmentPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentPLACER LAND TRUST — $20,000 · EnvironmentYolo Basin Foundation — $15,000 · Environment+2 more — $10,000 · Environment
Other$3,055,250Human Services$1,510,000Education$623,910Health$621,700Food & Nutrition$320,000Community Improvement$265,000Environment$260,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $352,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc — $342,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE — $267,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT — $265,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK — $210,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA — $205,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME — $195,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCristo Rey High School Sacramento — $190,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetYolo Crisis Nursery — $175,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES — $157,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSTANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES — $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUTTER DAVIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRIVER CITY FOOD BANK — $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKVIE INC — $82,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORCAL SERVICES FOR DEAF & HARD OF HEARING — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County — $67,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC — $67,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSacramento Literacy Foundation — $60,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetKEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE — $57,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPRIDE Industries — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOLO HOSPICE INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTLCS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Life Center Inc — $35,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Climate Center — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSACRAMENTO VALLEY CONSERVANCY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE SKILLS TRAINING & EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIMPACT FOUNDRY — $27,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budget
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 FoundationCA129.1× affinity68 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 · Sutter Valley Hospitals · United Way California Capital Region · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation · Safe Credit Union · Dignity Health · Pfund Family Foundation · The California Endowment · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Deacon 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 organization 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kelly Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kelly Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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