Vermont · Nonprofit
The Keelan Family Foundation
The Keelan Family Foundation (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,358 to it, the largest being The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc ($525,228). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Stratton Mountain & Valley Community Benefit Foundation Inclocal
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Mount Laurel Foundation Inc Co Arthur Shortlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $58k → $450k.
From the IRS filings of The Keelan Family Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
The Keelan Family Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
The Keelan Family Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Stratton Mountain & Valley Community Benefit Foundation InclocalVT · funds 13 organizations near you
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mount Laurel Foundation Inc Co Arthur ShortlocalVT · funds 11 organizations near you
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for North Bennington InclocalVT · funds 7 organizations near you
- Humphrey Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abe & Rae Weingarten Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sugar Ray Leonard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding The Keelan Family Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- Rural Health System Improvemnt$65k
- Grants$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like The Keelan Family Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Keelan Family Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Keelan Family Foundation?
- The Keelan Family Foundation (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,358 to it, the largest being The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc ($525,228). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Keelan Family Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $525,358 in grants to The Keelan Family Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Keelan Family Foundation?
- The James L Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $525,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Keelan Family Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing