The Kelsey Trust is a family foundation established in 1988 by Sally Patrick Johnson to benefit the people and protect the environment of the Lake Champlain Basin. The Trust honors the lives and work of Robert Fleming Patrick and Jonathan Kelsey Woods.
Since 1989 the Trust has worked with the Vermont Community Foundation, which assists the Trust with its grantmaking
From its beginnings the Kelsey Trust has sponsored an open-application grants process. Now, in an effort to increase the foundation's impact, the trustees have recently decided that until further notice the Trust will accept grant applications by invitation only. Among other strategies, the trustees intend to make fewer but larger investments in selected Champlain Basin organizations.
The VCF encourages grant seekers that might otherwise have applied to the Kelsey Trust to apply to the VCF's Community Fund grant rounds, which support a broad range of categories. Read more about the Community Fund grant rounds.
The Kelsey Trust thanks its past grantees and grant applicants for all their work to better the Basin and wish them all the best in their important work.
All inquiries and correspondence to the Trust should be directed to:
THE KELSEY TRUST
c/o Mary Conlon
The Vermont Community Foundation
P.O. Box 30
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802)388-3355 x233