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The Kellcie Fund at a glance

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The Kellcie Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$390k
Granted FY2025still arriving
94
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$788kArts & Culture$449kHealth$412kEducation$201kCivil Rights$187kYouth Development$117kCrime & Legal$101kInternational$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k84 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRX INCORPORATED$50,000
NPR FOUNDATION$50,000
LAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HOSPITAL$50,000
PRX INCORPORATED$25,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM$25,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY TREASURERS OFFICE$20,000
ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC$15,000
CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SERVICES$15,000
JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY$10,000
LA RABIDA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
CW MARKET FOUNDATION$7,500
WHITE STORK - UNITED STATES LTD$5,000
ACCESS LIVING OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$5,000
MARSHALL PROJECT INC$5,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION INC: $500 → 14%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION INC: $500 → 14%C AND W FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%C AND W FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%MCGAW YMCA: $1k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $500 → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $500 → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $500 → 14%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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 134 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

134 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

134
53

Total granted

$1.8M
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalCrime & LegalHuman 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

  • NF
    NPR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +3%
  • JB
    JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +157%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • NR
    National Redistricting Foundation (ActBlue)
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • A
    ACLU
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • PF
    People for the American Way
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

—
6
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
7
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
12
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health and Medicine Policy Research Group; the most unlike its peers is C and W Market Foundation. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 199 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/139
Grantees still filing
94/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NPR FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherNPR FOUNDATIONMoran Center for Youth Advocacy: $115,000 · OtherMoran Center for Youth AdvocacyPRX INCORPORATED: $110,000 · OtherPRX INCORPORATEDLAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherLAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HOSPITALNorthwestern University SESP: $50,000 · OtherNorthwestern University SESPTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $45,000 · OtherThe Kennedy Center: $37,500 · OtherNorthwestern University: $41,000 · Other+104 more: $288,843 · Other+104 moreLAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HEALTH CLINIC: $150,000 · HealthLAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATI…JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVI…Planned Parenthood of Illinois: $45,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of …CIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC: $45,000 · HealthCIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH …La Rabida Children's Hospital: $40,000 · HealthLa Rabida Children's H…Erie Family Health Center Inc: $16,000 · HealthTrust Women Foundation Inc: $14,920 · Health+12 more: $31,199 · Health+12 moreCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBL…JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNE…The National Public Housing Museum: $26,500 · Arts & CultureThe National…Project&: $15,000 · Arts & CultureProject&+15 more: $28,169 · Arts & Culture+15 moreCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $26,500 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $16,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $7,500 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL: $5,500 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $4,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $4,500 · Education+13 more: $30,211 · EducationJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: $57,885 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $15,500 · Crime & LegalAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,508 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalMILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID CHICAGO: $3,500 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $7,500 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,546 · Civil RightsInjustice Watch NFP: $3,000 · Civil RightsCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $26,000 · InternationalNATIONAL PEACE CORPS ASSOCIATION: $25,200 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC: $11,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $8,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $4,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · International+7 more: $6,872 · International
Other$937,343Health$392,119Arts & Culture$219,669Education$127,211Crime & Legal$98,643Civil Rights$86,546International$84,572

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 budgetNPR FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE TANGANYIKA FLOATING HEALTH CLINIC: $150,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: $57,885 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE HEALTH CARE SVCS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $27,026 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $26,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PEACE CORPS ASSOCIATION: $25,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $17,573 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $15,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject&: $15,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $14,920 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRepro TLC: $12,575 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetC AND W MARKET FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetWhite Stork - United States Ltd: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJazz Foundation of America Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,508 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY A MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $4,500 over 3y, 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.

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.

John D and Catherine …Jewish Federation of …Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…Lloyd a Fry FoundationEvanston Community Fo…The Lehman-Stamm Fami…Finnegan Family Found…United Way of Metropo…Northwestern Universi…Francis Beidler Found…
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL60.1× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • World Ocean School Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
27report 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.
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How do I get to The Kellcie Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Kellcie Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 199 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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