· Private foundation
The Kellam Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THUNDERBIRD CHARITIES | $105,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AZ PBS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| AZ BROADWAY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION - SURPRISE & SUN CITY WEST | $5,000 |
| SURPRISE YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,600 |
| DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $300 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $275 |
| ST JUDES HOSPITAL | $250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $250 |
| WORLD WILD LIFE FUNDS | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $840k · revenue +52%
- SHSUN HEALTH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +78%
- DCDYSART COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- SOSHEPHERD OF THE HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $4k
- THTherapeutic Harp Foundationone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -60%
- RDROTARY DISTRICT 5495 CHARITABLE FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valleywise Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The West Valley Chorale. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA ↗
- Who funds Northwest Valley Connect ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Harp Foundation ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VALLEY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds HART PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SUN CITY WEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE 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.
Open a dossier: Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · American Express Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Kellam Foundation Inc 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.