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Margaret H & James E Kelley Foundation Inc at a glance

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Margaret H & James E Kelley Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.8MHuman Services$943kEducation$621kInternational$605kArts & Culture$503kPublic Safety & Disaster$392kReligion$200kHousing & Shelter$198kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $659k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $632k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC$120,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$113,500
MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL$100,000
MAYO CLINIC$75,000
WINONA FAMILY YMCA$73,200
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$50,000
NORTH PLATTE VALLEY HEALTH CARE PRO$50,000
YMCA OF NATRONA COUNTY$50,000
MITCHELL HAMLINE COLLEGE OF LAW$35,000
UNICEF$35,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$30,000
USO$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MN STATE FAIR FOUNDATION$25,000
CATO INSTITUTE$25,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $35k) 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%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDE: $5k → 11%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDE: $5k → 11%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $5k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $5k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $5k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $5k → 14%YWCA OF ST PAUL: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
PA
CO
KY
AR
DC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 71 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

71 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
3

Total granted

$5.8M
$59k

Still filing today

56%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HM
    HAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $555k · revenue +47%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +39%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2023–2024 · $207k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS-SOUTEAST MN CHAP
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION POST 54NEVER FORGE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • RP
    RUSHFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY-HART MEMORI
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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7
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
Manhattanville University

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

Education
10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
11
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
12
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Twin Cities United Way; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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

44 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. 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
34/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Casper Family YMCA INC: $425,000 · OtherCasper Family YMCA INCWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC: $383,200 · OtherWINONA FAMILY YMCA INCNORTH PLATTE VALLEY HEALTH CARE PRO: $210,000 · OtherNORTH PLATTE VALLEY HEALTH CARE PROMITCHELL HAMLINE COLLEGE OF LAW: $175,000 · OtherUNICEF: $165,000 · OtherUSO: $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS-SOUTHEAST MN CHA: $140,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MN-SCHOOL OF NURSING: $130,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MNSD: $125,000 · Other+41 more: $1,732,300 · Other+41 moreHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: $555,000 · HealthHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHI…MAYO CLINIC: $350,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $80,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANN…CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthCORBETT MEDICAL FOUN…FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED: $47,500 · Health+1 more: $25,000 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $220,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $115,000 · InternationalHEIFER PR…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $90,000 · InternationalTHE UNION…International Rescue Committee INC: $55,000 · InternationalInternati…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $50,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AME…FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $160,000 · EducationNORTHLAND COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $75,000 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $55,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $12,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $207,000 · Human ServicesYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $25,000 · Human ServicesFriends & Co: $10,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $120,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,625,500Health$1,132,500International$560,000Education$375,000Arts & Culture$305,000Human Services$242,000Food & Nutrition$120,000

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 budgetHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: $555,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCasper Family YMCA INC: $425,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetWINONA FAMILY YMCA INC: $383,200 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $207,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPARK SQUARE THEATRE: $80,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $75,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NATRONA COUNTY: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChild Development Center of Natrona County: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED: $47,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetREADERWRITER: $35,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of St Paul: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY-EAST: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERHOUSE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN PROGRESS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends & Co: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $5,000 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds HAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds WINONA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA MASTERPIECE HALL ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CORBETT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NATRONA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Hardenbergh FoundationOtto Bremer TrustFred C and Katherine …The Hubbard Broadcast…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe K FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Dellwood Foundation I…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN23.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The K Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Dellwood Foundation Inc

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 Margaret H & James E Kelley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret H & James E Kelley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to Margaret H & James E Kelley Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 78 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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