How much does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts give?

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts reported 17 grants totaling $665,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Education (6%), Employment (2%).

Who are The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ($400k), Art Center College of Design ($230k), Fulcrum Arts ($222k).

Does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The J Paul Getty Trust, California Community Foundation, The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm.

Where is The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts based?

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts is based in CA.

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California · Private foundation

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$665k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 45%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $87M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureSocial ScienceEducationCivil RightsInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$665k	24%
FY2024	20	$709k	45%
FY2023	19	$563k	58%
FY2022	20	$440k	40%
FY2021	19	$450k	63%
FY2020	12	$530k	83%
FY2019	12	$440k	92%
FY2018	10	$425k	80%

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$230kEmployment$81kCivil Rights$55kPublic Benefit$45kEnvironment$20kSocial Science$18kYouth Development$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit	$400,000	9	4%
Art Center College of Design	$230,000	2	0%
Fulcrum Arts	$222,000	6	2%
Tate Americas Foundation	$170,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Poverty Department	$156,000	5	9%
Armory Center for the Arts	$120,500	4	2%
18th Street Arts Complex	$115,000	3	4%
Self Help Graphics & Art Inc	$103,000	3	3%
Center for Cultural Innovation	$100,000	1	0%
Vincent Price Art Foundation	$80,000	2	7%

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All grantees of The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit	$400,000	9	4%
Art Center College of Design	$230,000	2	0%
Fulcrum Arts	$222,000	6	2%
Tate Americas Foundation	$170,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Poverty Department	$156,000	5	9%
Armory Center for the Arts	$120,500	4	2%
18th Street Arts Complex	$115,000	3	4%
Self Help Graphics & Art Inc	$103,000	3	3%
Center for Cultural Innovation	$100,000	1	0%
Vincent Price Art Foundation	$80,000	2	7%
Clockshop	$80,000	3	8%
Echo Park Film Center	$76,000	3	29%
Pieter	$75,000	2	27%
Filmforum Inc	$75,000	2	26%
California Institute of the Arts	$71,000	2	0%
The Brick	$65,000	2	5%
La Freewaves	$65,000	2	47%
Future Roots Inc	$65,000	2	3%
Los Angeles Nomadic Division	$63,000	2	2%
Joan Los Angeles	$60,000	2	8%
Women's Center for Creative Work	$55,000	2	4%
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Inc	$55,000	2	4%
American Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc	$54,000	1	4%
Museum of Jurassic Technology	$53,000	2	6%
Coaxial Arts Foundation	$48,000	2	18%
Human Resources la Inc Hrla	$45,000	1	36%
The Underground Museum Inc	$45,000	1	5%
If Innovation Foundation	$45,000	1	n/a
Side Street Projects	$40,000	2	4%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Museum of Latin American Art	$40,000	1	1%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles	$40,000	1	0%
La Plaza de Cultura y Artes	$40,000	1	1%
The Industry Productions Inc	$40,000	1	6%
Highways Inc	$30,000	1	8%
Avenue 50 Studio Inc	$30,000	1	9%
California State University Dominguez Hills Toro Auxiliary Partners	$28,000	1	0%
Equitable Vitrines	$25,000	1	n/a
Beyond Baroque Foundation	$25,000	1	5%
Visual Communications Media	$25,000	1	4%
Velaslavasay Panorama	$24,000	1	15%
Automata Arts	$23,000	1	21%
Center for Land Use Interpretation	$20,000	1	8%
Ica La	$20,000	1	1%
Center for the Study of Political Graphics	$20,000	1	7%
The Aspen Institute Inc	$18,000	2	0%
LA River Public Art Project	$17,500	1	11%
Craft Contemporary	$13,500	1	1%
Poetic Research Bureau	$10,000	1	n/a
Active Cultures	$10,000	1	3%
The American Friends of the Moderna Museet Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Printed Matter Inc	$10,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 48.

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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.

The J Paul Getty TrustCA55.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The J Paul Getty Trust · California Community Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm · Perenchio Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Pasadena Art Alliance · California Humanities · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund

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.

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About The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

How much does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts give?: The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts reported 17 grants totaling $665,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Education (6%), Employment (2%).
Who are The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ($400k), Art Center College of Design ($230k), Fulcrum Arts ($222k).
Does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The J Paul Getty Trust, California Community Foundation, The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm.
Where is The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts based?: The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts is based in CA.