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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$979k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$979,380
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM OTHERS$979,380
02Its 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
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
3
Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School

To provide an academically challenging, knowledge-based curriculum, individually designed for each child's needs.

Education
4
The Public Interest Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
6
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

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…

Education
7
Elysian Charter School of Hoboken

The elysian charter school offers an academic program to help children discover their talents.

Education
8
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

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…

Human Services
9
Arch Street Preschool

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
10
Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy

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.

Education
11
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

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.

Education
12
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools; 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.
03the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,107,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM OTHERS: $979,380 · OtherALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM OTHERS+45 more: $634,000 · Other+45 moreCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $75,000 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationDREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $20,000 · EducationBUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $15,000 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationCORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · InternationalMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHEDGEROW THEATRE INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 · Human ServicesMERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesINGLIS HOUSE: $3,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10,000 · ReligionBOARD OF ST FRANCIS INC: $1,500 · ReligionCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $4,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $4,000 · Civil Rights
Other$4,721,180Education$192,000International$20,000Arts & Culture$19,500Human Services$18,000Religion$11,500Civil Rights$8,000

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 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
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 CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL NEUMANN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

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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