· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of THE JOHN M & LINDA J KELLY FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| ST JOESPH CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| WKU LIFEWORKS | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL KY | $2,500 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KY | $2,500 |
| HADLEY JO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MED CENTER HEALTH ADULT DAY CENTER | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- 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 +23%
Funded once
- BTBRIDGE TO INDEPENDENCE FUNDone grant, 2023 · $40k
- WFWKU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $26k
- BGBOWLING GREEN PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2019 · $21k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Central Ky Kids On the Block Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Sheriffs' Boys & Girls Ranch Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
- Who funds HADLEY JO FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The John M & Linda J Kelly Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.