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Kully Family 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.

$502k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$300k
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.

Education$2.2MHealth$841kRecreation & Sports$80kScience & Tech$50kInternational$26kArts & Culture$15kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $186k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$27,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW$300,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC$31,290
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$27,000
DOCTORS OF THE WORLD-USA INC$27,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$27,000
MINDS MATTER$27,000
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC$27,000
GO PROJECT INC$10,000
GO PROJECT INC$10,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$7,500
CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC$5,000
GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC$2,500
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 9%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $15k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $15k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $15k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%DOCTORS OF THE WORLD-USA INC: $27k → 17%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5k → 11%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 6 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$2.7M
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+55%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CA
    CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +54%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    3× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +183%
  • BD
    BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CAMBRIDGE-ELLIS SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +55%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +47%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +63%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads for Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $2,101,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEWMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $386,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL+5 more: $60,500 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $800,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…THE GO PROJECT INC: $96,939 · EducationTHE GO PROJECT INC+1 more: $17,000 · EducationCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesDOCTORS OF THE WORLD USA INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $31,290 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $22,500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $27,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,000 · InternationalCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $27,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $27,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,547,500Education$913,939Human Services$117,000Arts & Culture$53,790International$47,000Recreation & Sports$32,000Youth Development$27,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $800,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC: $96,939 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $31,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $27,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE-ELLIS SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kully Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kully Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 20 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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