· Private foundation
The Kelsey Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $428k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Clean Ocean Action | $40,000 |
| Indiana University Foundation | $40,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $40,000 |
| Childcare Resources of Indian River | $40,000 |
| Wharton Fund | $40,000 |
| Boulder Shelter for the Homeless | $35,000 |
| Emergency Family Assistance Association | $22,500 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $20,000 |
| Philabundance | $20,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $15,000 |
| Broad Street Ministries | $15,000 |
| Meals On Wheels of Boulder | $15,000 |
| Boulder Library Foundation | $15,000 |
| Waterorg | $10,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Philadelphia | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $581k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
50 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.
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; $0 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
Indiana University Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +97%- CRCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +237%
- COCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- SPSTEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- AOAbbey of Regina Laudisone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
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.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friend of Pleasant Bay Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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 Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD MEDICINE PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Express Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Kelsey Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Visiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.