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Kelton Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$574k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Kelton Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$573k0%
FY202414$1.4M14%
FY202312$135k17%
FY202217$106k12%
FY202114$95k7%
FY202024$129k21%
FY201921$164k14%
FY201819$91k0%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.8MArts & Culture$399kEducation$259kHealth$172kPhilanthropy$163kYouth Development$76kReligion$27kHuman Services$24kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trust for Public Land$1,750,00021%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$155,75090%
Guadalupe Kids Come First Foundation$120,000299%
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$82,80070%
Rancho Cielo Inc$56,00021%
Discovery Eye Foundation$42,30091%
Geffen Playhouse Inc$34,00050%
The Maple Counseling Center$30,00021%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$26,75080%
Leo Baeck Temple$26,1798n/a
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All grantees of Kelton Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trust for Public Land$1,750,00021%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$155,75090%
Guadalupe Kids Come First Foundation$120,000299%
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$82,80070%
Rancho Cielo Inc$56,00021%
Discovery Eye Foundation$42,30091%
Geffen Playhouse Inc$34,00050%
The Maple Counseling Center$30,00021%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$26,75080%
Leo Baeck Temple$26,1798n/a
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$20,55050%
Skirball Cultural Center$12,50050%
Students Run America$10,81730%
Concern Foundation$9,75060%
The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc$7,00040%
The Painted Turtle$6,00020%
Wise Readers to Leaders$3,00010%
Cg Jung Institute of Los Angeles$2,60030%
Women for Women International$2,60020%
Community Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association$1,70020%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$1,25050%
Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of Pacific Palisades$1,0001n/a
Saint John's Cancer Institute$70020%
Natividad Medical Foundation$50010%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles$50010%
Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation$1001n/a
Bright Prospect$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($395k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Kelton Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $1,750,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCenter Theatre Group of Los Angeles: $155,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGuadalupe Kids Come First Foundation: $120,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetSaint John's Health Center Foundation: $82,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRancho Cielo Inc: $56,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDiscovery Eye Foundation: $42,300 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetGeffen Playhouse Inc: $34,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Maple Counseling Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $26,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $20,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSkirball Cultural Center: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStudents Run America: $10,817 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetConcern Foundation: $9,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Painted Turtle: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWise Readers to Leaders: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCg Jung Institute of Los Angeles: $2,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWomen for Women International: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Housing Improvement Systems & Planning Association: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaint John's Cancer Institute: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatividad Medical Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Los Angeles: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBright Prospect: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

California Community …The Rosalinde and Art…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
California Community FoundationCA21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Kelton Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Kelton Fund 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 Kelton Fund Inc

How much does Kelton Fund Inc give?
Kelton Fund Inc reported 11 grants totaling $573,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kelton Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (9%).
Who are Kelton Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Trust for Public Land ($1.8M), Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles ($156k), Guadalupe Kids Come First Foundation ($120k).
Does Kelton Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kelton Fund 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 Kelton Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
Where is Kelton Fund Inc based?
Kelton Fund Inc is based in CA.

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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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