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Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50
Largest grant, FY2025
$350
Organizations funded a year
2 to 18
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$9k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$1k93%
FY202418$9k67%
FY202314$9k50%
FY202214$9k57%
FY202117$3k94%
FY20202$7kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$24kYouth Development$6kHealth$2kHuman Services$1kArts & Culture$1kAnimals$600Housing & Shelter$600International$550Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWallin Education Partners: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement North: $6,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Pathways of Steele County: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSteele County Humane Society: $550 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRachels Light Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Association for Children's Mental Health: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeds for Kids: $150 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Mn: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat North Innocence Project: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpero Academy: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wildcat Sanctuary: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDonate Life America: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLets Go Fishing: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Girls Code Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Theatre of Owatonna Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Minnesota: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYemen Aid Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Sports Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 & Minnesota FoundationMN17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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.

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About Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation

How much does Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation give?
Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $1,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (64%), Youth Development (17%), Health (5%).
Who are Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wallin Education Partners ($23k), Junior Achievement North ($6k), Music Boosters of Owatonna ($1k).
Does Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation based?
Michael and Nancy Keller Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 59 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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