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David & Janet Kline Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
67% of David & Janet Kline Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year David & Janet Kline Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $145k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k17 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SHARKS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ONCE ACRE FUND | $3,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| FOOD TANK | $2,200 |
| FOOD FORWARD | $2,200 |
| ECOAGRICULTURE INTL | $2,200 |
| ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES | $2,200 |
| VILLAGE HARVEST | $2,200 |
| CANCER CAREPOINT | $2,000 |
| PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED | $1,500 |
| CAMP ONE STEP | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +256% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +15%
- FFFOOD FORWARD INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +483%
- EIECOAGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- OAONE ACRE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +153%
- FTFOOD TANKone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ACADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +48%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Giving Tree and the most unlike its peers is Ron D Kline Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RON D KLINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds ECOAGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HARVEST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER CAREPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY GIVING TREE ↗
- Who funds SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David & Janet Kline Family 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.
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.
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