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Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly at a glance

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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.

$656k
Granted FY2025still arriving
94
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MArts & Culture$968kEducation$942kReligion$185kHuman Services$131kPhilanthropy$113kHousing & Shelter$56kHealth$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k83 grants · $173k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $319k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA$15,000
ASSUMPTION ABBEY$15,000
RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY$14,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$7,500
DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY$7,050
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$6,000
URBAN DREAMS$6,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $500 → 5%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $500 → 5%LUTHERAN SERVICES OF IOWA: $25k → 10%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $500 → 5%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $500 → 5%CENTER FOR THE WORKING POOR: $500 → 14%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $500 → 5%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $500 → 5%INNER VISIONS HEALTHCARE: $500 → 5%ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $3k → 10%BEAVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $6k → 10%DES MOINES CATHOLIC WORKER FUND: $1k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $1k → 10%URBAN DREAMS: $500 → 10%JOPPA: $2k → 10%JOPPA: $1k → 10%JOPPA: $750 → 10%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

MT
ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
LA
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.
$3.5M · 69 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
57

Total granted

$3.5M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-8%

Still filing today

49%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • EA
    Edmundson Art Foundation Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $428k · revenue +53%
  • TB
    The Bright Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $410k · revenue +268%
  • DM
    DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • 5N
    50 NEXT CAMPAIGN-DES MOINES METRO OPERA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • GD
    GREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -86%
  • FB
    FERNWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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2
Common Good 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.

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3
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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4
Des Moines Public Library Foundation

Raise funds and advocate provide for the des moines public library system.

Philanthropy
5
The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District

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…

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6
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
7
State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education
8
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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9
Iowa City Unesco City of Literature

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…

Education
10
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
11
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
12
Iowa Newspaper Association

To improve member newspapers

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/a Greater Des Moines Community Fdn; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 178 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
41/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DES MOINES PARKS AND RECREATION: $1,084,000 · OtherDES MOINES PARKS AND RECREATIONDOWLING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $120,150 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $106,800 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $105,000 · OtherST THOMAS MORE CENTER: $100,000 · Other+126 more: $782,411 · Other+126 moreEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $428,150 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundati…DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $213,400 · Arts & CultureDES MOINES METRO OPERA…IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $66,000 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC+10 more: $54,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreThe Bright Foundation: $410,000 · EducationThe Bright Foundat…ST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVE…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $39,500 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITY+10 more: $62,000 · Education+10 moreLUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesURBAN DREAMS: $7,500 · Human ServicesDes Moines Refugee Support: $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA: $3,500 · Human ServicesJOPPA: $3,250 · Human ServicesDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $2,500 · Human Services+4 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC: $2,750 · HealthMISSION CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthELLIPSIS INC: $2,500 · HealthLifeserve Blood Center: $2,500 · HealthBRIDGES OF IOWA: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $500 · HealthMILESTOWN COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $4,800 · Community ImprovementCLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,298,361Arts & Culture$762,050Education$626,500Human Services$50,750Health$11,750Community Improvement$9,800Food & Nutrition$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $428,150 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetThe Bright Foundation: $410,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $213,400 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $115,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $66,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $39,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDSERVE INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget826LA: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAINFRAME STUDIOS: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PBS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN DREAMS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBERGMAN ACADEMY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDes Moines Refugee Support: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLIVE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetIowa Legal Aid Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetANAWIM HOUSING INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE FIRES FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCIENCE CENTER OF IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES CATHOLIC CHORALE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMILESTOWN COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN IOWA JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOPPA: $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIDIOTS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELLIPSIS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-IOWA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifeserve Blood Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF IOWA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEAVERDALE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES FOUNDERS GARDEN CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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 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 URBAN DREAMS ↗

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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Meredith Corporation …Prairie Meadows Race …Bookey Family Foundat…EMC Insurance Foundat…The West Bancorporati…The Merchants Bonding…Wt and Edna M Dahl Tr…Gartner Family Founda…Athene Charitable Fou…Ita Group FoundationJohn Ruan Foundation …
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA51.3× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    Find your warmest path to Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly 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 178 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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