How much does The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation give?

The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation reported 72 grants totaling $566,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Arts & Culture (13%), International (12%).

Who are The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Navigators ($554k), Presbyterian Manor Inc ($295k), World Neighbors Inc ($225k).

Does The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable 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 The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Servant Foundation, Donnell Foundation.

Where is The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation based?

The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation

The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable 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.

$567k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.5MArts & Culture$578kInternational$537kHuman Services$387kCivil Rights$365kHealth$162kEducation$149kYouth Development$111kOther$0

02FY2024 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k54 grants · $223k
$10k–50k18 grants · $344k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM	$40,000
RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL	$35,000
REVELATION MEDIA	$25,000
SBA PRO LIFE AMERICA	$25,000
WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES	$25,000
RON HUTCHCRAFT MINISTRIES	$25,000
THE NAVIGATORS	$22,000
Individual grant recipient	$22,000
STRAIGHT STREET	$20,000
STREAMS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION	$20,000
REBOOT COMBAT RECOVERY	$15,000
PARACLETE	$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN MANOR	$10,000
WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION	$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS	$10,000

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.9M · 92 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

-5%

Still filing today

54%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHealthCivil RightsOther

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

PM
Presbyterian Manor Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +28%
WN
WORLD NEIGHBORS INC
5× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +2%
RE
Resource Exchange International Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +153%

Funded once

GC
GRACE COVENANT FOUNDATION - PERU
one grant, 2017 · $20k
GF
GRACE FELLOWSHIP - PERU
one grant, 2019 · $20k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $13k

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.

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion

Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International

Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion

Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion

Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion

Awakening Ministries International

Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.

Religion

Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion

Far Reaching Ministries

Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…

International

Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services

Global Outreach Mission Inc

Global Outreach Mission, Inc. is an inter-denominational foreign and domestic ministry organization that is engaged in a wide variety of ministries, including church planting, Christian camps, personal work, literature, community…

Religion

Reconciliation Ministries International Inc

Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Way Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

69 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. 69 of the 135 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

65/69

Grantees still filing

54/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,061,600Religion$784,000International$494,000Human Services$414,000Civil Rights$340,000Health$125,000Education$78,500

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

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.

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO24.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home