Illinois · Private foundation
The Kellcie Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $390k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2025
- 87
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 81 to 95
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Kellcie Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 83 | $380k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 87 | $326k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $333k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $297k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 85 | $264k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 91 | $296k | n/a |
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Npr Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic | $150,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Chicago Public Media Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| James B Moran Center for Youth Advocacy | $57,885 | 5 | 1% |
| National Redistricting Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jtp Professional Service Corporation | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Circle of Hope Health Care Svcs Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 139 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($458k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kellcie Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Evanston Community Foundation · The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund · Finnegan Family Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northwestern University · Francis Beidler Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Kellcie Fund
- How much does The Kellcie Fund give?
- The Kellcie Fund reported 94 grants totaling $390,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 95 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Kellcie Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (27%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Kellcie Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Npr Foundation ($200k), Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic ($150k), Chicago Public Media Inc ($100k).
- Does The Kellcie Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kellcie Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kellcie Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Kellcie Fund based?
- The Kellcie Fund is based in IL.
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