· Private foundation
Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of MARY K AND DANIEL M KELLY FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O DAN KELLY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k83 grants · $173k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $319k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DES MOINES PARKS AND RECREATION | $116,200 |
| DOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $102,500 |
| BRIGHT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DES MOINES ART CENTER | $27,300 |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $25,350 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DES MOINES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| ASSUMPTION ABBEY | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $15,000 |
| RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY | $14,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,050 |
| URBAN DREAMS | $6,000 |
| DES MOINES REFUGEE SUPPORT | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
- EAEdmundson Art Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $428k · revenue +53%
- TBThe Bright Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $410k · revenue +268%
- DMDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- 5N50 NEXT CAMPAIGN-DES MOINES METRO OPERAone grant, 2020 · $50k
- GDGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- FBFERNWOOD BOTANICAL GARDENone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Raise funds and advocate provide for the des moines public library system.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
To build and support diverse communities of writers and audiences through the transformative power of story. We lead by inclusion and collaboration, celebrating the emotions, discovery and connections inspired by the written word in all…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To improve member newspapers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/a Greater Des Moines Community Fdn and the most unlike its peers is The Bright Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
78 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. 78 of the 178 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 Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bright Foundation ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds IOWA PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BERGMAN ACADEMY ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Bookey Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · Athene Charitable Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust
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 Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly 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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