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The Robert & Renee Kelly Foundation at a glance

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The Robert & Renee Kelly Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Health$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kFood & Nutrition$15kAnimals$15kHuman Services$10kYouth Development$5kMembership Benefit$5kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$782k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Newport Beach Police Foundation$10,000
Wounded Warrior Project$2,000
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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $2k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $2k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $10k → 14%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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 4 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$147k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TE
    THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +151%
  • NB
    NEWPORT BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +86%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • WI
    WILDAID INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +20%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +157%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -4%
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
Manhattan Beach Police Officers Association

Provide services and benefits to the Police Officers of the city of Manhattan Beach, CA. These services and benefits include legal representation, certain life and disabilities benefits, collective bargaining representation, sponsorships,…

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2
American College of Emergency Physicians State Chapter of California Inc

California ACEP's mission is to support emergency physicians in providing the highest quality of care to all patients and to the community.

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3
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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4
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…

Health
5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
7
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
8
Kfhpw Holdings

Supporting kaiser permanente organizations which provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.

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9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
11
Agewell Pace

To promote community health and otherwise support the charitable purposes of its members, lifelong medical care and santa rosa community health centers, california nonprofit public benefit corporations, by providing a program of…

Health
12
California Walks

Statewide voice for pedestrian safety and healthy, walkable communities for people of all ages and abilities. California Walks partners with state agencies, community-based organizations and residents.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aim Youth Mental Health. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $107,100 · HealthTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTERAIM Youth Mental Health: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthNEWPORT BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Public BenefitNEWPORT BEACH …Sheriff's Relief Foundation of LA C: $10,000 · OtherSheriff's Relie…EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS: $5,000 · OtherEL NIDO FAMILY …National Charity League Inc: $5,000 · OtherNational Charit…Hospice Foundation: $5,000 · OtherHospice Foundat…Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: $5,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Cl…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,750 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED…LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesWILDAID INC: $15,000 · AnimalsMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Membership Benefit
Health$115,100Public Benefit$30,000Other$31,750Human Services$17,000Animals$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Membership Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $107,100 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetWILDAID INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Robert & Renee Kelly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Renee Kelly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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