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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -63% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MRMARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP- EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION7× · 2018–2024 · $298k · revenue +176% · 100% of their budget
- SCScripps College3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +46%
- TGTHE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- GFGUILD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIESone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -63%
- EMEisenhower Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +66%
- SMSACRAMENTO MODERNone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
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…
Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.
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…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanctuary Forest Inc and 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.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARIA & ROBERT KELLY STEWARDSHIP- EXPLORING INDIVIDUATION ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds THE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUILD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Four Springs Seminars ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOREST INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lakewood ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EAST SACRAMENTO ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO MODERN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Maria & Robert Kelly Stewardship funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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