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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL SACRAMENTO$75,000
SACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION$75,000
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME$75,000
WOMENS EMPOWERMENT$70,000
MERCY HOUSING$50,000
HOMERISE$50,000
RIVER CITY FOOD BANK$45,000
EASTER SEALS SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA$35,000
ALCHEMIST CDC$35,000
COLLEGE TRACK$35,000
SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND$25,000
TLCS INC DBA HOPE COOPERATIVE$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $15k → 6%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $10k → 14%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $15k → 6%THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR FREEDOM CENTER: $7k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 10%LOVED TWICE: $5k → 10%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $15k → 6%PRIDE INDUSTRIES: $10k → 6%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%CANINE COMPANIONS: $10k → 9%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%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%AGING UP: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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%
+6%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC: $67,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County: $67,500 over 5y, 1.1% 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 budgetSacramento Literacy Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetYOLO HOSPICE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTLCS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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 budgetSacramento Life Center Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.8% 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 budgetMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIMPACT FOUNDRY: $27,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Teichert FoundationSutter Valley Hospita…United Way California…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sierra Health Foundat…Safe Credit UnionDignity HealthPfund Family Foundati…The California Endowm…Taylor-Meyer Family F…Deacon Charitable Fou…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kelly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 162 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home