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Kelly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2021–2025 · $353k · revenue +27%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $343k · revenue +145%
SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE5× · 2021–2025 · $268k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- ROREDCROSS OF NORTHERN CAone grant, 2021 · $50k
- SASALVATION ARMY - DEL ORO DIVISIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- YFYOLO FAMILY POVERY REDUCTION PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
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…
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
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.
Changing lives every day by maximizing our resources to help people with barriers achieve self-sufficiency.
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,…
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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey High School Sacramento ↗
- Who funds Yolo Crisis Nursery ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SUTTER DAVIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KVIE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NORCAL SERVICES FOR DEAF & HARD OF HEARING ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Literacy Foundation ↗
- Who funds KEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PRIDE Industries ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds YOLO HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SHINE TOGETHER INC ↗
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: 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% 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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