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The Keel 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.

$88k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
62%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$88,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$88,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 62% of the organizations The Keel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$88k100%
FY202321$85k62%
FY202221$85k43%
FY202122$84k50%
FY202022$85k45%
FY201924$86k42%
FY201825$89k48%
FY201721$85kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$188kYouth Development$146kEducation$134kFood & Nutrition$49kHousing & Shelter$28kReligion$18kCrime & Legal$6kHealth$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Keel Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Baltimore Station Inc$70,00070%
Calvary Children's Home$35,00060%
Ministerial Association Temporary Shelter$28,00071%
The Center for Family Resources$16,00040%
The Family Tree Inc$15,00020%
The Boys' Latin School of Maryland Inc$10,00030%
Tennessee Food on Foot Foundation Inc$8,00031%
All Saints' Episcopal School Inc$7,00020%
GB Charities Inc$6,00021%
Cease Inc$6,00030%
Hunt Valley Church$4,0003n/a
Maryland Casa Association Inc$4,00040%
Holistic Life Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Ulman Foundation Inc$2,00010%

Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($474k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Keel Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Baltimore Station Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCalvary Children's Home: $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMinisterial Association Temporary Shelter: $28,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Center for Family Resources: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Family Tree Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Boys' Latin School of Maryland Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTennessee Food on Foot Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAll Saints' Episcopal School Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGB Charities Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCease Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMaryland Casa Association Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHolistic Life Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUlman Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving IncMD14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Keel Foundation

How much does The Keel Foundation give?
The Keel Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $88,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Keel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Youth Development (21%), Education (20%).
Who are The Keel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Baltimore Station Inc ($70k), Calvary Children's Home ($35k), Ministerial Association Temporary Shelter ($28k).
Does The Keel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Keel 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 Keel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is The Keel Foundation based?
The Keel Foundation is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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