Vermont · Private foundation
The Keelan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $358k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Keelan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $45k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $25k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $54k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $29k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $46k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $44k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $17k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $13k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Arts & Enrichment Program dba Arlington Common | $60,990 | 5 | 11% |
| Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd | $10,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Inc | $7,875 | 6 | 1% |
| Arlington Rescue Squad Inc | $6,300 | 6 | 1% |
| The Berkshire School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arlington Food Shelf Inc | $4,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Bennington Museum Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Museum Board of the City of Huntsville | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ethan Allen Institute | $2,025 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Communication Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Keelan Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Keelan Family Foundation
- How much does The Keelan Family Foundation give?
- The Keelan Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $45,310 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Keelan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Keelan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arlington Arts & Enrichment Program dba Arlington Common ($61k), Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd ($10k), Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning Inc ($8k).
- Does The Keelan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Keelan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Keelan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is The Keelan Family Foundation based?
- The Keelan Family Foundation is based in VT.
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