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.

Kelsey Family Foundation

Kelsey Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$19k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$168kYouth Development$74kFood & Nutrition$46kInternational$43kReligion$40kArts & Culture$26kHousing & Shelter$19kHuman Services$18kOther$0

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $36k
$10k–50k1 grant · $19k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$961k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY	$19,000
MIDLAND SCHOOL	$5,000
KECK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE	$5,000
THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF SANTA BARBARA	$4,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$4,000
FOOD FORWARD	$4,000
GREENPEACE	$3,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY	$3,000
CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH	$2,500
OLIVE CREST	$2,000
SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL FUND	$1,000
OFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY	$1,000
CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL	$500
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$500

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$409k · 45 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$409k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+28%

Still filing today

60%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

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

MS
MIDLAND SCHOOL CORPORATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +20%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +98%
SH
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +3%

Funded once

LA
LOS ANGELES BALLET INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +20%
FA
FULCRUM ARTSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +74%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $3k

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.

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Born Just Right Inc. 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

45 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. 45 of the 71 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/45

Grantees still filing

36/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$292,104Education$86,100International$43,000Food & Nutrition$31,500Arts & Culture$14,000Human Services$12,050Philanthropy$9,250

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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA19.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kelsey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kelsey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home