· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k156 grants · $441k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY BOTANICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CLEWISTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $15,000 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| BRANCHES INC | $15,000 |
| BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS | $10,000 |
| THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE - ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BACKUS GALLERY & MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC - FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -54%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MOORE HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kelly Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelly Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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