How much does The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation give?

The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $269,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Inner City Scholarship Fund Inc ($398k), New World Preparatory Charter School ($161k), Project Hospitality Inc ($139k).

Does The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher 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 Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.

The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation

The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation

Q: What does The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (18%), Housing & Shelter (5%).

Q: Where is The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation based?

The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$269k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$65k

Largest

01What it funds

0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$743kArts & Culture$468kHousing & Shelter$143kReligion$136kHealth$88kFood & Nutrition$86kRecreation & Sports$28kHuman Services$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $35k
$10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$50k–250k3 grants · $175k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$65,000
ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION	$60,000
ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION	$50,000
PROJECT HOSPITALITY	$31,000
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY	$16,000
BREAD OF LIFE	$12,500
ST PATRICKS DAY FOUNDATION	$6,500
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY	$5,000
INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
ST ANN'S CHURCH	$2,550
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	$2,500
ST JOHN VIANNEY CLERGY RESIDENCE	$1,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,000

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 49 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

Still filing today

59%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

NW
NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
4× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +180%
PH
PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $139k · revenue +69%
SJ
St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc
6× · 2017–2022 · $86k · revenue +94%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $205k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $10k
DT
DR THEODORE A ATLAS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $6k

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.

The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 94 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)

55/55

Grantees still filing

36/55

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,052,800Education$341,710Food & Nutrition$86,250Arts & Culture$80,225Human Services$27,750Health$15,900Environment$5,000

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ26.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Staten Island Foundation · Richmond County Savings Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Roberta and Allan Weissglass Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · National Grid Foundation · City Harvest 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 The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Denis P and Carol a Kelleher Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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