· Private foundation
Kelly Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k156 grants · $441k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY BOTANICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| CLEWISTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BRANCHES INC | $15,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $15,000 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE - ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA HOUSE-WASHINGTON DC | $5,000 |
| BACKUS GALLERY & MUSEUM | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
282 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2024, 150 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- MBMONTGOMERY BOTANICAL CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $497k · revenue +73%
- CCCLEWISTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $151k · revenue +86%
- TITHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROBERT MARX OMFS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SASOW A SEED INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -94%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
To create a greater miami where everyone can thrive by accelerating generosity, leadership, and community engagement. the miami foundation serves as a philanthropic and community backbone for greater miami, bringing together donors,…
The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
The foundation is organized to receive, invest, and administer real & personal property including, but not limited to, the construction of dormitories for the florida keys community college (the "college"), an instrumentality of the state…
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.
Protect florida coastal ecosystem via education, research and community stewardship.
To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Deering Estate Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Botanical Center. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 382 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MONTGOMERY BOTANICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEWISTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MOORE HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATION 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: The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · Cobb Family Foundation Inc · Tonkinson Foundation Inc · Alexander C Macintyre Charitable Trust II · He Hill Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Lighthouse Works Inc — 2% of income from government
- New Hope Charities Inc — 0% of income from government
- Montgomery Botanical Center — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 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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