Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Kelsey Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $224k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Kelsey Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $204k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $179k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $169k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $185k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $152k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelburne Farms | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Spectrum Youth and Family Services Inc | $37,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $37,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $35,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Intervale Center Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Burlington YMCA Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Stern Center for Language and Learning | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sara M Holbrook Community Center Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($234k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kelsey Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Fanny Allen Corporation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation · The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Kelsey Trust
- How much does The Kelsey Trust give?
- The Kelsey Trust reported 30 grants totaling $223,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Kelsey Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Philanthropy (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Kelsey Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Shelburne Farms ($55k), Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc ($45k), Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ($45k).
- Does The Kelsey Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kelsey Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kelsey Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Kelsey Trust based?
- The Kelsey Trust is based in MA.
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