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The Kelsey Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$731kHuman Services$594kFood & Nutrition$443kInternational$405kHousing & Shelter$343kHealth$330kEnvironment$258kArts & Culture$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $428k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childcare Resources of Indian River$40,000
Wharton Fund$40,000
Indiana University Foundation$40,000
Clean Ocean Action$40,000
Food Bank of the Rockies$40,000
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless$35,000
Emergency Family Assistance Association$22,500
Philabundance$20,000
Doctors Without Borders$20,000
Meals On Wheels of Boulder$15,000
Planned Parenthood$15,000
Broad Street Ministries$15,000
Boulder Library Foundation$15,000
Vietnam Veterans of America$10,000
Americares Foundation$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wish for Wheels: $500 → 8%American Red Cross: $1k → 19%American Red Cross: $1k → 19%Project HOME: $10k → 22%American Red Cross: $1k → 19%American Red Cross: $1k → 19%Project HOME: $10k → 22%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $40k → 12%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $40k → 12%Project HOME: $10k → 22%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $40k → 12%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $40k → 12%Project HOME: $10k → 22%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $40k → 12%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $40k → 12%Project HOME: $10k → 22%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $40k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $23k → 12%Childcare Resources of Indian River: $20k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $23k → 12%Project HOME: $10k → 22%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $23k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $18k → 12%Project HOME: $10k → 22%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $18k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $8k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $3k → 12%Emergency Family Assistance Association: $1k → 12%Broad Street Ministries: $15k → 22%Broad Street Ministries: $15k → 22%Broad Street Ministries: $15k → 22%Broad Street Ministry: $15k → 22%Broad Street Ministries: $15k → 22%Broad Street Ministry: $10k → 22%Broad Street Ministry: $5k → 22%Broad Street Ministry: $3k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CO
MO
MD
KS
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 50 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
4

Total granted

$3.4M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+257%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +97%
  • CR
    CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +237%
  • CO
    CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • SP
    STEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • AO
    Abbey of Regina Laudis
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
5
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
6
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
7
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
9
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
30/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wharton Fund: $300,000 · OtherWharton FundPlanned Parenthood: $125,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodCity of Smith Center Kansas: $80,000 · OtherCity of Smith Center KansasRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $70,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE…Boulder Library Foundation: $60,000 · OtherNew Horizons Senior Center: $44,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity Indian River: $40,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $46,862 · OtherVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $68,000 · OtherVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INCVisiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast Inc: $40,000 · Other+22 more: $302,800 · Other+22 moreCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOURCES…EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $113,500 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMILY AS…BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $93,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET MINIST…PROJECT HOME: $70,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME+2 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesIndiana University Foundation: $300,000 · EducationIndiana Unive…CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $70,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SC…Food For Thought Denver: $40,000 · EducationFood For Thou…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $150,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FO…Save The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 · InternationalSave The Chil…WATERORG: $70,000 · InternationalWATERORGUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $35,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $190,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF …Philabundance: $120,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanceMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $92,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEE…CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $250,000 · Environment+2 more: $7,000 · EnvironmentBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $152,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,176,662Human Services$581,000Education$410,000International$405,000Food & Nutrition$402,500Environment$257,000Housing & Shelter$192,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIndiana University Foundation: $300,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC: $300,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $250,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $190,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $152,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $150,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $113,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $93,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF BOULDER INC: $92,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWATERORG: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $68,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $46,862 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PHILADELPHIA INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $29,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $24,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD MEDICINE PRODUCTIONS: $20,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILLS UNITED WAY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIEND OF PLEASANT BAY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSTEPHY'S PLACE - A NEW LIFE SUPPORT CENTER FOR GRIEF AND LOSS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWish for Wheels Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
  • Who funds WATERORG ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …Community Foundation …The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Enterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kelsey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kelsey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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