· Private foundation
The Kelly Family Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF SOUTHERN WV | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| MCDOWELL ADVISORY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| BECKLEY PERFORMING ARTS | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $3,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WV | $2,000 |
| JUST FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WV | $1,550 |
| MOVEMBER | $1,000 |
| BLUE LINE INC | $1,000 |
| STS PETER & PAUL CHURCH | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 43% of The Kelly Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 56%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC4× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +3%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2021 · $23k · revenue +5%
- BPBECKLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- WHWARM HANDS WARM HEARTSone grant, 2023 · $6k
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
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 43 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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds JUST FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ARTS OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HULL FOUNDATION 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kelly Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kelly Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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