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Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$680k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2026
5
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$12M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureOther
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
FY2026still arriving9$430k33%
FY20255$219k0%
FY20244$245k0%
FY20235$272k0%
FY20225$284k0%
FY20214$285k50%
FY20204$257k25%
FY20193$201k0%
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.0MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$755kFood & Nutrition$135kHuman Services$100kRecreation & Sports$68kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dakota Wesleyan University$1,135,000101%
Colorado Museum of Natural History$500,00090%
Denver Center for the Performing Arts$300,00060%
Metro Caring$135,00021%
Young Americans Center for Financial Education$87,76291%
Iliff School of Theology$65,0001n/a
Food Bank of the Rockies$50,0001n/a
Scottish Rite Foundation of Colorado$40,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($535k), not named here.

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About Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation

How much does Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation give?
Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $679,997 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Dakota Wesleyan University ($1.1M), Colorado Museum of Natural History ($500k), Denver Center for the Performing Arts ($300k).
Does Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation based?
Rollie R Kelley Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 12 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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