Georgia · Private foundation
The Kelin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Kelin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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 | 37 | $3.9M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $3.9M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $3.7M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $2.3M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $3.0M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $2.7M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $2.7M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $1.8M | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Tech Foundation Inc | $3,175,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Agnes Scott College | $2,685,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Westside Future Fund Inc | $1,380,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Georgia Historical Society | $789,333 | 9 | 3% |
| The Lovett School Inc | $550,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Shepherd Center Foundation Inc | $410,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $367,000 | 8 | 0% |
| George West Mental Health Foundation Inc | $347,000 | 9 | 1% |
| St Simons Land Trust Inc | $320,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Path Foundation Inc | $295,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kelin Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Zeist Foundation Inc · Betty and Davis Fitzgerald Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Kelin Foundation
- How much does The Kelin Foundation give?
- The Kelin Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $4,011,463 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kelin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (28%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are The Kelin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgia Tech Foundation Inc ($3.2M), Agnes Scott College ($2.7M), Westside Future Fund Inc ($1.4M).
- Does The Kelin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kelin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kelin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Georgia Power Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Kelin Foundation based?
- The Kelin Foundation is based in GA.
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