· Private foundation
Kenneth L Kellar 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AITKIN AREA DOLLAR FOR SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
| AITKIN A TEAM BASEBALL | $2,500 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 3473 | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,160 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LUX MUNDI HOMESCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCE | $1,000 |
| AITKIN COUNTY 4H | $900 |
| AITKIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ASAITKIN STEAM BASEBALL5× · 2019–2024 · $31k
- ADAITKIN DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS4× · 2018–2021 · $21k
- SJST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH2× · 2018–2019 · $20k
Funded once
- BLBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH ELCAone grant, 2018 · $28k
- ISINDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 1one grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Protect and preserve life in the south aitkin county mn area; and in a disaster situation respond to greater aitkin county and surrounding counties.
Rescue and place domestic rabbits.
Dedicated to nurturing, encouraging, and supporting arts in aitkin county mn.
To rescue, rehabilitate & re-home dogs, with an emphasis on siberian huskies.
To assist veterens in financial need
Our mission is to bring in donated pet food and pet supplies and hand them out to other nonprofits including: animal rescues, animal sanctuaries, other animal efforts, and food shelves. We take in donations from all over the USA and unload…
To rescue, foster, and find permanent homes for airedale terriers in michigan, ohio, and indiana.
Rescue abused and abandoned airedale dogs and place them for adoption.
The non-profit is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, and educational purposes, and for the prevention of cruelty of animals specifically, to promote the preseravation of life and to ensure quality of life for vulnerable…
To provide lifelong care for minnesota animals through rescue, rehabilitation, foster care, placement in forever homes or end of life comfort care.
To rescue and rehome Shetland Sheepdogs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aitkin Quarterbacks Club and the most unlike its peers is Scoobys Animal Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AITKIN COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD AND FREE WILDLIFE REHAB PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AITKIN QUARTERBACKS CLUB ↗
- Who funds AITKIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AITKIN COUNTY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SCOOBYS ANIMAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds WREATHS FOR THE FALLEN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kenneth L Kellar Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.