· Private foundation
The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HIVE INC | $15,000 |
| KENTUCKY KIDS ON THE BLOCK | $12,500 |
| PERSPECTIVE SKILLS FOR LIFE INCENTIVES | $10,000 |
| OPERATION PRIDE | $10,000 |
| ST GIANNA CRISIS CENTER | $9,500 |
| HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $8,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $7,500 |
| WKU LIFEWORKS | $5,000 |
| ST JOESPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KY | $2,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL KY | $2,500 |
| HADLEY JO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MED CENTER HEALTH ADULT DAY CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCommonwealth Health Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +258%
- HIHABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC5× · 2018–2025 · $34k · revenue +486%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- BTBRIDGE TO INDEPENDENCE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $40k
- WFWKU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $26k
- BGBOWLING GREEN PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2019 · $21k
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.
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.
To empower and support individuals with disabilities and their families to effectively advocate for and access needed information, resources and support networks in order to enhance the quality of their lives.
Bleeding disorders of kentucky (bdoky) is dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals with inheritable bleeding disorders through education, engagement, and support.
None
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Saving the lives of homeless and unwanted pets in harrison county kentucky and surrounding areas.
To provide families with the opportunity to build and own an energy efficient homne in 9 impoverished kentucky counties of cumberland, clinton, wayne, mccreary, whitley, bell, laurel, rockcastle, pulaski, and adjacent regions.
Kentucky heartland outreach's mission is to provide safe, warm, and dry homes to homeowners who cannot afford to make much needed home repairs. kentucky heartland outreach performs a wide variety of rehabilitation work including but not…
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
Lost person search and rescue operations health-related rescue operations and mutual aide operations with law enforcement, other search and rescue teams, and other governmental agencies.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Commonwealth Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE THE DREAM DEVELOPMENT INC % CATHERINE MILLER EXEC DIRECTOR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL KY KIDS ON THE BLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A WARRIOR INC ↗
- Who funds Smoky Mountain Service Dogs ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Scariot Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc · The Jerry E Baker Foundation Inc · The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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