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Paul E Kelly Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM OTHERS | $979,380 |
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 philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
To provide an academically challenging, knowledge-based curriculum, individually designed for each child's needs.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
The elysian charter school offers an academic program to help children discover their talents.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
To create educational opportunities for young children. arch street preschool is a joyful and open christian learning community where gifts are celebrated through diversity, discovery and play.
Education: Philadelphia-Montgomery Academy's mission is to provide excellent Academic Education within the context of a consistent Christian world-and-life view for the children of Christian families.
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 69 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 CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Bobby Bonds Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Howley Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Ambassadors Fund for Catholic Edu Archdiocesan Educational Fund
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.
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