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Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship at a glance

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Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship

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.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$298kEducation$150kArts & Culture$130kHealth$32kEnvironment$25kReligion$15kRecreation & Sports$3kHuman Services$3k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP-EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION$55,000
FOUR SPRINGS SEMINARS$15,000
FRIENDS OF EAST SACRAMENTO$3,000
VETERANS FOR LIFE INC$2,500
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES: $2k → 10%CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%GUILD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES: $18k → 11%EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%SACRAMENTO MODERN: $3k → 12%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $50k → 14%FOUR SPRINGS SEMINARS: $15k → 17%SANCTUARY FOREST: $3k → 18%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $3k → 17%CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GUARDIAN STEWARDSHIP: $70k → 9%ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES: $2k → 10%CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%SACRAMENTO HERITAGE INC: $3k → 12%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $50k → 14%SANCTUARY FOREST: $3k → 18%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $3k → 17%CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%MARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP-EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION: $55k → 9%CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%SACRAMENTO HERITAGE INC: $3k → 12%SCRIPPS COLLEGE: $50k → 14%SANCTUARY FOREST: $3k → 18%CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GUARDIAN STEWARDSHIP: $48k → 9%VETERANS FOR LIFE INC: $3k → 12%GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 14%SANCTUARY FOREST: $3k → 18%CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%MARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP-EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION: $30k → 9%FRIENDS OF EAST SACRAMENTO: $3k → 12%GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 14%CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%GUARDIAN STEWARDSHIP: $25k → 9%GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 14%MARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP - EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION: $25k → 9%GUARDIAN STEWARDSHIP: $23k → 9%GUARDIAN STEWARDSHIP: $23k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF LAKEWOOD: $3k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF LAKEWOLD: $3k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF LAKEWOLD: $3k → 9%THE FRIENDS OF LAKEWOLD: $3k → 9%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.
$605k · 10 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -63% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$605k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-63%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationHealthReligionOther
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

  • MR
    MARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP- EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $298k · revenue +176% · 100% of their budget
  • SC
    Scripps College
    3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +46%
  • TG
    THE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • GF
    GUILD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -63%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +66%
  • SM
    SACRAMENTO MODERN
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -100%
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
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
3
San Francisco Architectural Heritage

The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.

Arts & Culture
4
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
5
Santa Clara River Conservancy

The Santa Clara River Conservancy represents the diverse interests of the Santa Clara River, from the flood plain to the highest tributaries, and seeks to secure, sustain, and manage significant lands and waters that provide habitat for…

Environment
6
Environment Now
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7
Sierra Foothill Conservancy

Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.

Environment
8
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
9
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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10
Elkhorn Slough Foundation

The Elkhorn Slough Foundation's mission is to conserve and restore Elkhorn Slough and its watershed, California's largest tidal salt marsh south of San Francisco Bay. Renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, Elkhorn Slough features a…

Philanthropy
11
Conservation Endowment Fund
Environment
12
Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc

The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanctuary Forest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship- Exploring Individuation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP- EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION: $298,000 · PhilanthropyMARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP- EXPLORING INDIVID…Scripps College: $150,000 · EducationScripps CollegeTHE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GAMBLE HOUSE CONS…CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA PRESERVATI…THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAP…+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFriends of Lakewood: $10,000 · EnvironmentSANCTUARY FOREST INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES: $4,000 · EnvironmentGUILD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES: $17,600 · OtherSACRAMENTO HERITAGE INC: $5,000 · OtherVETERANS FOR LIFE INC: $2,500 · OtherFour Springs Seminars: $15,000 · ReligionEisenhower Medical Center: $10,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF EAST SACRAMENTO: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$298,000Education$150,000Arts & Culture$125,000Environment$29,000Other$25,100Religion$15,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP- EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION: $298,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetScripps College: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY: $60,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetFour Springs Seminars: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Lakewood: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOREST INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSACRAMENTO HERITAGE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF EAST SACRAMENTO: $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSACRAMENTO MODERN: $2,500 over 1y, 6.1% 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.

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Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship?

    Find your warmest path to Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship 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 16 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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