· Private foundation
The Kelley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Gene Autry Fire Department | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CROSS TIMBERS HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE INDUSTRIES 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kelley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kelley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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