· Private foundation
The Keelan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St James Church | $8,500 |
| Arlington Arts Enrichment Program | $5,140 |
| Kevin Karl Music Foundation | $2,500 |
| Lyme Ct Ambulance Corps | $2,500 |
| Arlington Food Shelf | $2,500 |
| Bennington Museum | $2,500 |
| Vermont Veterans Home | $2,409 |
| Lyme Youth Service | $2,000 |
| Red Mountain Lodge 63 | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Huntsville Museum of Art | $1,000 |
| VTdiggerorg | $1,000 |
| Christardora | $1,000 |
| Midway USA Foundation | $1,000 |
| Arlington Rescue Squad Inc | $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 (FY20–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 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, 89% 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
Backed again, and grew
- AAArlington Arts & Enrichment Program dba Arlington Common5× · 2021–2025 · $61k · revenue +33%
VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +58%- GMGREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFELONG LEARNING INC6× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TBTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +60%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $4k
- VAVT Association of Chiefs of Policeone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Promote quality public education
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How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 107 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 Arlington Arts & Enrichment Program dba Arlington Common ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY FOR LIFELONG LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds ETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Keelan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Keelan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Soldier On Inc: 83% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council: 67% of income from government
- Sunrise Family Resource Center Inc: 46% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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