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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.

$979k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$979,380
Largest grant, FY2024
$979,380
Organizations funded a year
1 to 67
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Paul E Kelly Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving1$979k100%
FY20231$1.0M0%
FY20221$1.2M0%
FY20211$917k100%
FY202067$903kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$3.1MCivil Rights$987kEducation$709kReligion$38kHuman Services$34kArts & Culture$23kYouth Development$20kInternational$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School$75,00010%
Independence Mission Schools$25,00010%
Mercy Vocational High School Sisters of Mercy$25,0001n/a
The Depaul Catholic (Ims)$22,5001n/a
Merion Mercy Academy$22,0001n/a
Office of Catholic Education$20,0001n/a
Drexel Neumann Academy Inc$20,0001n/a
Cradle of Liberty Council 525 Boy Scouts of America$20,00010%
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia$20,00012%
Hope Partnership for Education$20,00011%
Show all 35 grantees

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul E Kelly Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCristo Rey Philadelphia High School: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndependence Mission Schools: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCradle of Liberty Council 525 Boy Scouts of America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Philadelphia: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHope Partnership for Education: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBusiness Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gesu School Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstone Christian Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNationalities Service Center of Philadelphia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMann Center for the Performing Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Leadership Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLa Salle University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBryn Mawr Theatre Film Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBobby Bonds Memorial Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCenter for Individual Rights: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInglis House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZoological Society of Philadelphia: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHedgerow Theatre Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor: $3,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAls United Mid-Atlantic: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRSVP Volunteers: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNarberth Community Library: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTheatre Exile Company: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRose Valley Chorus and Orchestra: $500 over 1y, 2.1% 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 26.

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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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA33.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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Find your warmest path to Paul E Kelly Foundation 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.

About Paul E Kelly Foundation

How much does Paul E Kelly Foundation give?
Paul E Kelly Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $979,380 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Paul E Kelly Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (62%), Civil Rights (20%), Education (14%).
Who are Paul E Kelly Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School ($75k), Independence Mission Schools ($25k), Mercy Vocational High School Sisters of Mercy ($25k).
Does Paul E Kelly Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul E Kelly Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul E Kelly Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Connelly Foundation, Wsfs Cares Foundation.
Where is Paul E Kelly Foundation based?
Paul E Kelly Foundation is based in PA.

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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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