· Private foundation
The Kelly Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $50,250 |
| ST ANSELM COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $45,100 |
| WPI | $30,000 |
| ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT | $7,500 |
| THE MERCY LEARNING CENTER | $5,100 |
| GREENFIELD HILL CHURCH | $500 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $500 |
| BRIAN DAGLE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BROOKLYN JESUIT PREP SCHOOL | $500 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $100 |
| SHEPHERDS INC | $100 |
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 (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 20% of The Kelly Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 82%.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +69%- WBWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue ×23
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $144k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- WSWe Stand With Christ Incone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
- DODIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT 2017 ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEALone grant, 2017 · $2k
- DODIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT 2018 ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEALone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 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 SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds We Stand With Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds PHI KAPPA THETA NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds INTENSIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN JESUIT PREP ↗
- Who funds The Brian Dagle Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE MISSIONARIES OF THE HOLY APOSTLES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION OF CT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Chef Joey Schilling Memorial Foundation ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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.
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: 34% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 8% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 7% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 6% of income from government
- Intensive Education Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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