· Private foundation
Kenneth L Kellar Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC - AITKIN AREA DOLLAR FOR SCHOLARS | $5,000 |
| AITKIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| MINNESOTA DEER HUNTERS ASSOCIATION | $1,350 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 3473 | $1,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,000 |
| AITKIN QUARTERBACKS CLUB | $750 |
| AITKIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AITKIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - AITKIN COUNTY 4H | $450 |
| ST PHILLLIPS FOCUS M | $300 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
- DODAC OF AITKIN COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
To rescue, rehabilitate & re-home dogs, with an emphasis on siberian huskies.
To preserve the history of rock county, minnesota
To continue the tradition of honoring our veterans on memorial day by placing flags at their headstones.
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…
Rescue and place domestic rabbits.
Provide guide dog training dogs
Promotion of beef industry
To assist veterens in financial need
Providing support services to us military veterans and their dependents.
Dakota county historical society exists to preserve, interpret and promote the history of dakota county, minnesota.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kenneth L Kellar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth L Kellar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
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