How much does Key Foundation give?

Key Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $321,210 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Key Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (54%), Environment (14%), Civil Rights (10%).

Who are Key Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($163k), International Rescue Committee INC ($157k), Central Pennsylvania Food Bank ($110k).

Does Key Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Key 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 Key Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Capital Region, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation.

Key Foundation

Key Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Key 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.

$321k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$949kEnvironment$248kCivil Rights$179kFood & Nutrition$146kHealth$82kArts & Culture$78kEducation$38kHuman Services$26kOther$0

02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k39 grants · $106k
$10k–50k14 grants · $215k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$30,000
CENTRAL PA FOOD BANK	$25,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND	$25,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE	$20,000
ACLU	$15,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE	$15,000
PROPUBLICA	$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$10,000
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION	$10,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE	$10,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS	$10,000
EARTHJUSTICE	$10,000
RAICES	$10,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH	$10,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$9,000

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 (FY21–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 54 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+23%

Still filing today

81%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $163k · revenue +89%
IR
International Rescue Committee INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $157k · revenue +80%
CP
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK
7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +54%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF PA
one grant, 2017 · $10k
BI
B'TSELEM INC
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +9%
AJ
A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +188%

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.

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

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

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hyde Park Refugee Project. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 78 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)

61/63

Grantees still filing

48/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$898,670Environment$227,700Other$289,223Food & Nutrition$122,500Civil Rights$79,500Health$74,750Arts & Culture$74,190

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.

United Way of the Capital RegionPA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · Lois Lehrman Grass Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Key Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Key Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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