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The Kellam Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$847kHealth$195kArts & Culture$134kHuman Services$116kHousing & Shelter$92kPublic Benefit$70kEducation$28kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$150
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THUNDERBIRD CHARITIES$105,000
FRIENDS OF AZ PBS$25,000
AZ BROADWAY THEATRE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
SURPRISE YOUTH FOUNDATION$5,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION - SURPRISE & SUN CITY WEST$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
FINCA$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $120 → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $120 → 14%BENEVILLA: $22k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%NORTHWEST VALLEY CONNECT: $5k → 11%NORTHWEST VALLEY CONNECT: $5k → 11%NORTHWEST VALLEY CONNECT: $5k → 11%BENEVILLA: $4k → 11%BENEVILLA: $3k → 11%BENEVILLA: $3k → 11%BENEVILLA: $2k → 11%BENEVILLA: $2k → 11%NORTHWEST VALLEY CONNECT: $1k → 11%BENEVILLA: $200 → 11%EVE'S PLACE: $100 → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $100 → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $100 → 11%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $100 → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $36k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $900 → 11%DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $200 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
CO
MO
VA
AZ
KS
AR
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 55 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
15

Total granted

$1.5M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-12%

Still filing today

58%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • TC
    THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $840k · revenue +52%
  • SH
    SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +78%
  • DC
    DYSART COMMUNITY CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • SO
    SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • TH
    Therapeutic Harp Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -60%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

1
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
2
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
3
Lowell Observatory

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…

Science & Tech
4
Brightfocus Foundation

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…

Health
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International
6
Banner Health

Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".

Health
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
9
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
University of Southern California

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…

Education
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valleywise Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 85 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
33/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES: $840,000 · PhilanthropyTHUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES+3 more: $500 · PhilanthropySALVATION ARMY: $90,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $84,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF AZ PBS: $69,200 · OtherFRIENDS OF AZ PBSAZ BROADWAY THEATER: $25,000 · OtherAZ BROADWAY THEATERAZ BROADWAY THEATRE: $20,000 · OtherAZ BROADWAY THEATRE+48 more: $63,191 · Other+48 moreSUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $185,800 · HealthSUN HEALTH FOU…+7 more: $4,850 · HealthDYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $62,700 · Human ServicesSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA: $36,150 · Human ServicesNorthwest Valley Connect: $16,000 · Human Services+4 more: $1,240 · Human ServicesARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $1,150 · Education+2 more: $450 · EducationHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $8,100 · Youth DevelopmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,800 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $1,700 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $1,200 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $700 · InternationalMercy Corps: $600 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $300 · International+2 more: $200 · International
Philanthropy$840,500Other$351,491Health$190,650Human Services$116,090Education$16,600Youth Development$8,100International$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES: $840,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetSUN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $185,800 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetDYSART COMMUNITY CENTER: $62,700 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetSUN CITY AREA INTERFAITH SERVICES INC DBA BENEVILLA: $36,150 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Valley Connect: $16,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $8,100 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTherapeutic Harp Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSYMPHONY OF THE SOUTHWEST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHART PANTRY: $1,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $1,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUN CITY WEST FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $875 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHACK: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $440 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FUND OF SUN CITY WEST INC: $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ARIZONA: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RH JOHNSON LIBRARY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVE'S PLACE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition to Protect Americas National: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…American Express Foun…BHHS Legacy FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable TrustIN17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kellam Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kellam Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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