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Arnold & Kay Clejan Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$252kEducation$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$62kCivil Rights$35kHuman Services$26kFood & Nutrition$24kPhilanthropy$20k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$910k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF HOPE$12,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY$6,000
FEEDING AMERICA$6,000
CTR FOR EXC IN EDUCATION$4,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE$4,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$4,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$4,000
WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICE$4,000
LA JEWISH HOME FOR AGING$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SVC: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SVC: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SVC: $4k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SVC: $4k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SVC: $4k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICE: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$504k · 12 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
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Total granted

$504k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-40%

Still filing today

58%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationScience & TechHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +46%
  • CF
    Center for Excellence in Education
    7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +28%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

6
Teachers College Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia Universitys (TC or the College) mission is to empower committed learners and leaders to build a smarter, healthier, more just and equitable world through multidisciplinary knowledge creation, policy engagement,…

Education
7
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
8
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
11
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
12
American Academy of Pediatrics

The mission of the american academy of pediatrics is to obtain optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. the academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Jewish University and the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF HOPE — $104,400 · OtherCITY OF HOPEBRAILLE INSTITUTE — $34,800 · OtherBRAILLE INSTITUTETHE GUARDIANS OF LA JEWISH HOME FOR — $29,100 · OtherTHE GUARDIANS OF LA JEWISH HOME FORPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $20,400 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODJEWISH FEDERALTION OF GREATER LOS A — $19,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERALTION OF GREATER LOS A+3 more — $11,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $55,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National R…Wayfinder Family Services — $34,700 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Se…AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $52,100 · EducationAMERICAN JE…Center for Excellence in Education — $47,800 · Science & TechCenter for…Children's Hospital Los Angeles — $46,900 · HealthChildren's…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $34,800 · Civil RightsFeeding America — $24,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,000 · International
Other$219,200Human Services$90,200Education$52,100Science & Tech$47,800Health$46,900Civil Rights$34,800Food & Nutrition$24,000International$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $55,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY — $52,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education — $47,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $46,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $34,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services — $34,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Center for Excellence in Education
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds Wayfinder Family Services
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arnold & Kay Clejan Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s 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 · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Arnold & Kay Clejan Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Arnold & Kay Clejan Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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