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Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$659k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$4.4MHealth$6kReligion$5kInternational$2k
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $324k
$6,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMASS - AMHERST$101,500
WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY$89,000
FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY$76,000
UMASS - LOWELL$57,500
BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY$44,500
SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY$25,500
WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY$22,000
FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY$17,000
UMASS - DARTMOUTH$16,500
University of Massachusetts Boston$13,000
UMASS - BOSTON$11,500
ASSUMPTION COLLEGE$11,500
WPI - WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$11,000
FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY$11,000
ITHACA COLLEGE$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 8%FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%UMASS - AMHERST: $113k → 12%SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $29k → 7%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $24k → 8%FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $22k → 10%UMASS - AMHERST: $102k → 12%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERISTY: $22k → 8%FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $19k → 8%UMASS - AMHERST: $93k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $79k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASS DARTMOUTH: $18k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $78k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $75k → 12%UMASS - LOWELL: $58k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $71k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $51k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $47k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $42k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $35k → 8%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $109k → 11%UMASS - LOWELL: $29k → 8%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $33k → 10%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $103k → 11%UMASS - LOWELL: $23k → 8%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 10%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $92k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON: $32k → 16%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 10%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $76k → 11%UMASS BOSTON: $19k → 16%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 10%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 11%University of Massachusetts Boston: $18k → 16%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 11%FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $67k → 11%MOUNT WACHUSETT COMM COLLEGE: $110k → 11%MWCC - MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $76k → 11%MWCC - MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $67k → 11%MOUNT WACHUSETT COMM COLLEGE: $59k → 11%MOUNT WACHUSETT COMM COLLEGE: $56k → 11%MOUNT WACHUSETT COMM COLLEGE: $55k → 11%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $22k → 11%WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $89k → 11%WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $76k → 11%WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $46k → 11%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

ME
VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
CT
RI
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
HI
LA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 61 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

61 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
31

Total granted

$4.1M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+21%

Still filing today

48%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $91k · revenue +42%
  • NC
    NICHOLS COLLEGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $59k · revenue +4%
  • FP
    Franklin Pierce University
    5× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOUNTH HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • LV
    LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +5%
  • PC
    PORTER & CHESTER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

46 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. 46 of the 104 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $592,000 · OtherFITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITYWORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $306,500 · OtherWORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITYUMASS - AMHERST: $306,500 · OtherUMASS - AMHERSTUNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $302,571 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERSTMOUNT WACHUSETT COMM COLLEGE: $278,750 · OtherMOUNT WACHUSETT COMM COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MASS LOWELL: $174,500 · OtherMWCC - MOUNT WACHUSETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $142,500 · OtherWESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY: $139,500 · OtherSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $138,500 · OtherFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY: $131,000 · Other+52 more: $976,680 · Other+52 moreNICHOLS COLLEGE: $59,000 · EducationNICHOLS COLLEGEFranklin Pierce University: $55,000 · EducationFranklin Pierce Univer…ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $53,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGEWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $52,500 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF…University of New Haven: $46,500 · EducationUniversity of New Have…ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $41,500 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $41,500 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $38,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $36,000 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $35,500 · EducationITHACA COLLEGE: $30,000 · Education+30 more: $371,750 · Education+30 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,489,001Education$860,250Community Improvement$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $90,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNICHOLS COLLEGE: $59,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $53,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $41,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $41,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $36,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHPOINT BIBLE COLLEGE: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% 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 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Franklin Pierce University ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of New Haven ↗
  • Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS ↗
  • Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Davis Educational Fou…O'Meara Foundation IncAlbert H & Reuben S S…Angela M Zampogna Sch…The George I Alden Tr…Fidelity FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Miller Ua Morey & Hel…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Davis Educational FoundationME22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Davis Educational Foundation · O'Meara Foundation Inc · Albert H & Reuben S Stone Fund · Angela M Zampogna Scholarship Fund · The George I Alden Trust · Fidelity Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Miller Ua Morey & Helen Schol · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Norwich University: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lasell University: 1% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • Curry College: 0% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
  • Western New England University: 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 0% of income from government
  • Nichols College: 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College: 0% of income from government
  • Lesley University: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn 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 104 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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