Kelin Foundation

About Kelin Foundation

The Kelin Foundation’s clearest pattern is sustained operating support for a small circle of Atlanta institutions, led by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Tech Foundation. Across the recent grants list, the foundation repeatedly backs core budgets rather than project-specific work, with grants large enough to matter at the organizational level. That approach also appears in support for Shepherd Center Foundation, where the grant is framed as general operating support. The portfolio is not broad or diffuse. It centers on health care, higher education, and selected civic institutions in Georgia, with Atlanta-area recipients appearing again and again. Agnes Scott College, City of Refuge, Westside Future Fund, Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Path Foundation all receive recurring support in the recent record, suggesting a preference for continuity over one-time experimentation. The foundation also extends beyond the largest metro institutions to place-based nonprofits on the Georgia coast and other in-state organizations. St Simons Land Trust and Georgia Historical Society show that the giving pattern includes conservation and history alongside the better-known health and education grantees. Overall, the picture is of a family foundation using flexible, unrestricted grants to sustain established local organizations in Georgia.

What Kelin Foundation Funds

In pediatric healthcare, the foundation gave $2,215,000 to Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta for general operating support in 2025, and it had also made $1,615,000 grants for general operating funds in both 2024 and 2023. That repeated support places children’s health at the center of its recent grantmaking. Higher education is another major theme. Georgia Tech Foundation received $1,025,000 in 2025 for general operating support, following $600,000 in 2024 and $100,000 in 2023 for general operating funds. Agnes Scott College also appears in the record, with grants of $830,000 in 2024 and $40,000 in 2023. Community and civic work shows up through support for Atlanta-based organizations such as Westside Future Fund and City of Refuge, each funded for general operating purposes. The foundation also backs infrastructure for the nonprofit sector itself, including grants to Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta.

How Kelin Foundation Gives