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T Lloyd 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.

$283k
Granted FY2022
36
Grants FY2022
10
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Religion$92kEducation$76kArts & Culture$38kPhilanthropy$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kHealth$12kHuman Services$10kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $271,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $282,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k28 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELIHU CLUB, INC$79,000
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice$25,000
DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FDN, INC$25,000
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$18,500
ELIHU CLUB, INC$12,500
EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL$10,000
CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION$10,000
EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL$10,000
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$8,000
SISTER BAY & LIBERTY GROVE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC$6,250
SISTER BAY & LIBERTY GROVE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC$6,250
THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$5,000
LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO$5,000
NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER$5,000
THE BAY AREA TUMOR INSTITUTE$5,000
02Your field

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.

1
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
2
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
3
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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4
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
11
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
12
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Phillips Exeter Academy. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter and Independent Sch…Early Childhood Care CentersLocal History MuseumsCollege Foundation SupportCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterGovernment Accountability &…Pregnancy Support CentersVolunteer Fire & RescueChildhood Cancer SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

03the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ELIHU CLUB INC — $91,500 · OtherTHE ELIHU CLUB INCCrown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice — $25,000 · OtherCrown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and PracticeBAY AREA TUMOR INSTITUTE — $5,000 · Other+12 more — $18,500 · Other+12 moreEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationEMMA WILLARD SCHOOLCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL F…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $8,000 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF C…THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO — $5,000 · EducationTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CH…OJAI VALLEY SCHOOL — $4,500 · EducationOJAI VALLEY SCHOOLPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $3,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEM…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $1,500 · EducationNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $18,500 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET H…THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ANTIQUA…NAPERVILLE HERITAGE SOCIETY — $3,000 · Arts & CultureNAPERVILLE …NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyDOOR COUNT…SISTER BAY AND LIBERTY GROVE — $12,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 · HealthNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE HOUSE INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $2,500 · International
Other$140,000Education$54,500Arts & Culture$27,500Philanthropy$25,000Health$14,500Human Services$7,500International$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ELIHU CLUB INC — $91,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $18,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSISTER BAY AND LIBERTY GROVE — $12,500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBAY AREA TUMOR INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOJAI VALLEY SCHOOL — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPERVILLE HERITAGE SOCIETY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA HORSE PARK FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCompanion Animal Clinic of the Sandhills Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCaring Hearts for Canines — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolutions for Animals Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY12.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

03Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to T Lloyd Kelly Foundation?

Find your warmest path to T Lloyd 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $240k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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