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The Kelley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Food and Resource Center of South Central Oklahoma | $15,000 |
| Ardmore Animal Care | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| River of Life Food Bank | $8,000 |
| HFV Wilson Community Center | $7,500 |
| Plainview Public Schools | $7,000 |
| Ardmore Soup Kitchen | $7,000 |
| Sharing Hope in Hugo Food Bank | $6,000 |
| Ardmore City Schools | $6,000 |
| Community Youth Services | $5,000 |
| Family Shelter of Southern Oklahoma | $5,000 |
| Heroes with Hope for Southern Oklahoma | $3,000 |
| The Grace Center of Southern Oklaho | $2,500 |
| Wilson Senior Citizens Center | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- AAARDMORE ANIMAL CARE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +18%
- HWHEROES WITH HOPE OF SOUTHERN OK INC3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +19%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- FBFood Bank of Southern Oklahomaone grant, 2020 · $30k
- FRFood Resource Center S Central Oklaone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FAFood and Resource Center SCOone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
To serve those who are experiencing or at risk for homelessness.
Our mission is to provide hospice care to terminally ill patients and their families regardless of their ability to pay. staff is on call 24/7/365 to provide nursing, pastoral and bereavement care. patients never receive a bill for our…
Provide hospice care to terminally ill persons and their families regardless of their ability to pay. the staff is on call 24 hours a day to provide nursing, personal pastoral and bereavement care.
To promote the welfare of okmulgee county by providing temporary shelter and food for homeless and destitute persons
Hospice of san angelo, inc. (hospice or organization) provides an expert approach to care for those living with a limiting illness in the comfort of their own home and designated nursing homes throughout the twelve counties in the west…
Rescue, rehab, provide pet adoptions, etc in cherokee county okincluding veterinary care, spay and neuter, vaccinationstreatment boarding and shelter care
To provide long-term residential job programs for non-violent court ordered drug alcohol offenders in order to obtain and maintain abstinence as an alternative to incarceration.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
The house of hope rescue mission is a "day shelter" for the homeless and needy, providing food, clothing, shelter, and general services to the homeless and needy persons in around springdale, arkansas.
The mission of the henry hosea house is to provide food and nourishment for the bodies and souls of the men, women, and children of the northern kentucky/cincinnati area. we are a cooperative ecumenical nonprofit agency made up of…
Sweet home will strive to achieve excellence in delivery of quality care and services in the best interest of our residents.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heroes With Hope of Southern Ok Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cross Timbers Hospice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 31 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 ARDMORE ANIMAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SHELTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND RESOURCE CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ARDMORE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds HFV WILSON COMMUNITY CENTER AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES WITH HOPE OF SOUTHERN OK INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS TIMBERS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE INDUSTRIES 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: McCrory Foundation · The Daube Family Foundation Inc · Jerome Westheimer Family Foundation · Southern Oklahoma Memorial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Ardmore Inc · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · Charles B Goddard Foundation Trust · The Merrick Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kelley 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.
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.
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