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The Kelin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE KELIN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
4
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GSGA FOUNDATION$50,000
RUSSELL CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP$50,000
CITY OF REFUGE$50,000
PATH FOUNDATION$35,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VISION CASHIERS INC: $10k → 18%JOHNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%CHRIS 180 INC: $15k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $10k → 14%CHRIS 180 INC: $10k → 14%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $10k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $5k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $300k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $5k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $300k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $300k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $5k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $300k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $5k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $80k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $50k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $5k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $5k → 13%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $50k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 68 repeat orgs$686k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you 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

68
57

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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…

2
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
3
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
4
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…

5
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
6
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
7
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.

8
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…

9
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…

10
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
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%1%<5yr16%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr11%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr11%57%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/102
the rest of the field
18%
5,168/29,451

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/100
Grantees still filing
64/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA — $10,566,924 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAAgnes Scott College — $2,685,000 · OtherAgnes Scott CollegeGeorgia Historical Society — $789,333 · Other+77 more — $3,177,819 · Other+77 moreGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $3,175,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDA…THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $550,000 · EducationTHE LOVETT SCHOOL I…THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF …GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $162,500 · Education+10 more — $277,000 · Education+10 moreWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $1,380,000 · Human Services+5 more — $120,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $410,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $280,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC — $52,500 · PhilanthropyCharitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of Atlanta Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $63,485 · PhilanthropyROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $367,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA BALLET INC — $123,000 · Arts & CultureCoastal Georgia Historical Society — $27,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $31,500 · Arts & CulturePATH FOUNDATION INC — $295,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $105,000 · Recreation & SportsChastain Park Conservancy Inc — $101,000 · Recreation & SportsGSGA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center — $85,000 · Recreation & SportsGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc — $30,060 · Recreation & Sports+4 more — $23,500 · Recreation & SportsRUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC — $250,000 · Community ImprovementGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $100,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$17,219,076Education$4,414,500Human Services$1,500,000Philanthropy$1,045,985Arts & Culture$748,500Recreation & Sports$739,560Community Improvement$510,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $3,175,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAgnes Scott College — $2,685,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $1,380,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society — $789,333 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetTHE LOVETT SCHOOL INC — $550,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC — $367,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $347,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC — $320,000 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC — $295,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $280,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE — $255,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC — $250,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $184,333 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC — $175,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $162,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY — $145,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC — $123,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $118,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP TWIN LAKES INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChastain Park Conservancy Inc — $101,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGSGA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetThe Kindezi School Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAgape Community Center — $85,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetEVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOUT TEACH — $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC — $52,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCharitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of Atlanta Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC — $40,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCHRIS 180 INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGood Golfers Better People of Metro Atlanta Inc — $30,060 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Georgia Historical Society — $27,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHillside Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBack the Blue Atlanta Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Agnes Scott College
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC
  • Who funds Georgia Historical Society
  • Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC
  • Who funds CITY OF REFUGE
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC
  • Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES OF COASTAL GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ATLANTA BALLET INC
  • Who funds GEORGIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds GSGA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The Kindezi School Inc
  • Who funds Agape Community Center
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
  • Who funds EVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds OUT TEACH
  • Who funds EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC
  • Who funds Charitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of Atlanta Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Kelin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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