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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.

$678k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
166
Grants FY2024
166
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
163 to 204
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$15M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Kelly Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving165$676k20%
FY2023166$573k21%
FY2022163$638k21%
FY2021168$817k22%
FY2020183$860k20%
FY2019204$847kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$3.2MEnvironment$577kHealth$274kReligion$163kCommunity Improvement$57kPhilanthropy$52kArts & Culture$50kEmployment$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Montgomery Botanical Center$496,54257%
Clewiston Christian School Inc$151,00061%
The Immokalee Foundation Inc$150,00061%
Branches Inc$90,0006n/a
Broward College Foundation Inc$75,00060%
Island Health Project Inc$47,50061%
Florida House Washington DC Inc$45,00063%
Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc$45,00030%
Breakthrough T1d$40,00040%
Lighthouse Works Inc$35,00060%
Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 353 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kelly Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMontgomery Botanical Center: $496,542 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetClewiston Christian School Inc: $151,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Immokalee Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBroward College Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetIsland Health Project Inc: $47,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFlorida House Washington DC Inc: $45,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetPalm Beach Atlantic University Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Works Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFishers Island Conservancy Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetMoore Haven High School Scholarship Organization Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetNew Hope Charities Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Barnacle Society Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetVillagers Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetThe Junior League of Miami Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSow a Seed Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCat Cay Medical Clinic Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTouching Miami With Love Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Hands Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Deering Estate Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEducation Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClewiston Museuminc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

The Miami Foundation IncFL19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Kelly Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Kelly Foundation Inc 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.

About Kelly Foundation Inc

How much does Kelly Foundation Inc give?
Kelly Foundation Inc reported 166 grants totaling $678,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 163 and 204 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Kelly Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Environment (13%), Health (6%).
Who are Kelly Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Montgomery Botanical Center ($497k), Clewiston Christian School Inc ($151k), The Immokalee Foundation Inc ($150k).
Does Kelly Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kelly Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kelly Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Miami Foundation Inc, The Batchelor Foundation Inc, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is Kelly Foundation Inc based?
Kelly Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 382 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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