FundersWest Virginia

The Kelly Family Foundation Inc

Daniels, WV · EIN 20-8038344. Reported 46 grants totalling $170,030 to 33 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,450median grant
$170,030granted, 2020-2023
33organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$943,413assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Kelly Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,450. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,300 and $5,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $13,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
4 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
25 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Salvation ArmyBeckley, WV$26,000332022
United Way of Southern WvBeckley, WV$15,500222022
Beckley Performing ArtsBeckley, WV$11,000442023
Beckley Area FoundationBeckley, WV$10,000112023
Neighbor's on WheelsCrab Orchard, WV$10,000112022
YMCA of Southern West VirginiaBeckley, WV$10,000112020
Wvu FoundationMorgantown, WV$7,500112020
American Cancer SocietySouth Charleston, WV$6,500112023
Warm Hands Warm HeartsOak Hill, WV$6,000112022
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities IncMemphis, TN$5,000112021
Children's Organ Transplant AssociationBloomington, IN$5,000112021
New River PrimaryOak Hill, WV$5,000112023
Norma Mae Huggins Cancer FundSunbury, OH$5,000112023
Norma Mae Huggins EndowmentMorgantown, WV$5,000112021
St Jude's HospitalMemphis, TN$5,000112022
YMCA of Southern WvBeckley, WV$4,900222023
St Francis De Sales SchoolBeckley, WV$4,880442023
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$4,100222021
Doctors Without Borders USANew York, NY$3,000222022
Just for KidsBeckley, WV$2,500112023
American Cancer SocietyKennesaw, GA$2,000112021
Hospice of Southern WvBeckley, WV$2,000112021
Just for Kids Child AdvocacyBeckley, WV$2,000112022
Medecins Sans FrontieresGeneva$2,000112023
First Tee of West VirginiaBeckley, WV$1,900222021
Mountaineer Athletic ClubMorgantown, WV$1,500112023
Wvu Athletics DeptMorgantown, WV$1,500112022
Ghent Volunteer Fire DepartmentGhent, WV$1,000112023
Movember Cancer Research (prostate Cancer Foundation)Santa Monica, CA$1,000112021
Palmer Home for ChildrenColumbus, MS$1,000112020
Read Aloud WvCharleston, WV$1,000112023
The Hull FoundationGreenwood, MS$1,000112020
Bowers Hospice HouseBreckley, WV$250112023

8 of 33 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 33%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
4 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
4 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Health Care
1 grant
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202010$33,800$1,650
202112$41,900$2,050
202211$53,400$3,000
202313$40,930$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 80% of this one's giving went to organizations in West Virginia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

West Virginia
$136K
Tennessee
$14K
Ohio
$5K
Indiana
$5K
New York
$3K
Geneva
$2K
Georgia
$2K
Mississippi
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

National Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsBeckley Area Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsCarter Family Foundation5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,450. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in West Virginia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Kelly Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1331 Lake Drive, Daniels, WV, 25832. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-8038344 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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