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Ken Kelley Family Foundation at a glance

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Ken Kelley 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.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Housing & Shelter$170kCommunity Improvement$96kReligion$19kEducation$11kHealth$5kInternational$5kArts & Culture$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$811k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS PANHANDLE FUTURES FOUNDATION$20,000
THE CHURCH AT BUSHLAND$5,000
DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER$2,500
AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME$500
02The need
03

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 (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$196k · 4 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$196k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+74%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesReligionArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • TP
    TEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $170k · revenue -103% · 66% of their budget
  • WP
    WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $13k
  • OS
    OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • LW
    LAURA W BUSH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +134%
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.

1
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
Texas Public Radio

The mission of Texas Public Radio is to engage, inspire and inform, bringing people together to better understand their community and world.

Arts & Culture
4
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
5
Hendrick Home for Children
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6
Abode Contemplative Care

Abode's mission is to teach the art of contemplative living and dying while providing a beautiful home and compassionate care for those at end of life - at no charge. abode runs completely on donations and grants. abode's vision: "we live…

Human Services
7
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
8
The Hope Center Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
10
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
Sacred Heart Foundation Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-center, holistic care which…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children; the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION: $170,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEXAS PANHANDLE FUTURES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTEXAS PANHANDLE FUTURES FOUNDATIONWESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $12,500 · OtherWESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $8,500 · OtherOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INCLAURA W BUSH INSTITUTE: $5,000 · OtherCHURCH AT BUSHLAND: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $1,500 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · ReligionTHE WORD AT WORK: $1,000 · ReligionThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Education
Human Services$170,500Other$127,500Religion$6,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Education$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WORD AT WORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

High Plains Christian…Bruckner Family Found…Mays FoundationDr Kent Roberts & Ile…Amarillo Area Foundat…Gilliland Family Foun…Maynard FoundationWilliam & Louise Mull…Amarillo Business Fou…Kimble Foundation Tru…Cj and Syble Fowlston…The Ware Foundation
High Plains Christian Ministries FoundationTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc · Mays Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Gilliland Family Foundation · Maynard Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · The Ware Foundation

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 16 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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