California · Private foundation
Kelsey Family Foundation
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.
- $55k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $961k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Kelsey Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $50k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $54k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $54k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $56k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $55k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $54k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $59k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $66k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland School Corporation | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Corpus Christi Church | $23,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Greenpeace Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| St Monicas Catholic Church | $13,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Corpus Christi School | $11,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Ballet Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Upward Bound House | $9,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kelsey Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Greater Horizons · The Rose Hills Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Kelsey Family Foundation
- How much does Kelsey Family Foundation give?
- Kelsey Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $55,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kelsey Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Youth Development (15%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Kelsey Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Midland School Corporation ($35k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($32k), Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc ($28k).
- Does Kelsey Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kelsey Family Foundation 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 Kelsey Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Sempra Foundation, Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is Kelsey Family Foundation based?
- Kelsey Family Foundation is based in CA.
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