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.

The Kelin Foundation

The Kelin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Kelin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$12MEducation$7.3MCommunity Improvement$2.1MArts & Culture$1.5MRecreation & Sports$925kPhilanthropy$535kEnvironment$513kHuman Services$320kOther$0

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $30k
$10k–50k15 grants · $278k
$50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$250k+3 grants · $2.6M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$43M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION	$1,100,000
CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA	$1,046,924
THE LOVETT SCHOOL	$500,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION	$210,000
GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION	$131,250
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER	$110,000
YWCA OF GREATER ATLANTA	$105,000
COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION	$105,000
CHASTAIN PARK CONSERVANCY	$100,000
ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION	$83,333
ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN	$62,500
CITY OF REFUGE	$50,000
RUSSELL CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP	$50,000
GSGA FOUNDATION	$50,000
PATH FOUNDATION	$35,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$25M · 68 repeat orgs$686k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

68 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$25M

$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+3%

Still filing today

81%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +116%
AS
Agnes Scott College
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +56%
WF
WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +45%

Funded once

CF
Charitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of Atlanta Inc
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -59%
TG
THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +161%
AF
ALEXANDER-THARPE FUND
one grant, 2023 · $31k

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.

04Its field

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.

Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement

Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…

Education

Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education Inc

Inform and influence georgia leaders through research and non-partisan advocacy to impact education policies and practices for the improvement of student achievement.

Education

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health

The Atlanta Chapter the American Institute of Architects Inc

To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.

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Georgia Tech Foundation Real Estate Holding Corporation

The georgia tech foundation real estate holding corporation was formed to hold title to real estate and similar property on behalf of the georgia tech foundation, inc., and for other purposes permitted under section 501(c)(2) of the…

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American Council of Engineering Com of Georgia Inc

Acec georgia champions the business of engineering by driving impactful public policy advocacy, delivering unmatched business development opportunities, empowering member firms with essential business resources, providing future-focused…

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Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

The georgia tech research corporation (gtrc) is organized and operated to support the research activities of the georgia institute of technology in the areas of innovative research, technical assistance, and economic development.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 136 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

98/100

Grantees still filing

64/100

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$17,219,076Education$4,414,500Human Services$1,500,000Philanthropy$1,045,985Arts & Culture$748,500Recreation & Sports$739,560Community Improvement$510,000

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.

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.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA55.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kelin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kelin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Kelin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kelin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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