California · Private foundation
Kelly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 85
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Kelly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 83 | $2.0M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 85 | $1.3M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $1.8M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $837k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $625k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $352,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc | $342,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Saint John's Program for Real Change | $267,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Women's Empowerment | $265,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Yolo Food Bank | $210,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Easter Seal Society of Superior California | $205,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sacramento Children's Home | $195,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey High School Sacramento | $190,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Yolo Crisis Nursery | $175,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sacramento Loaves & Fishes | $157,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 125 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($982k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kelly Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Kelly Foundation
- How much does Kelly Foundation give?
- Kelly Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $1,994,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 85 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Kelly Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (19%), Human Services (16%), Health (13%).
- Who are Kelly Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($353k), Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc ($343k), Saint John's Program for Real Change ($268k).
- Does Kelly Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kelly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kelly Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Teichert Foundation, Sutter Valley Hospitals.
- Where is Kelly Foundation based?
- Kelly Foundation is based in CA.
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