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David & Janet Kline Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$145k
Granted FY2017
18
Grants FY2017
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of David & Janet Kline Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Los Altos Mountain View Community 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

9
’17
3
’18
1
’19
1
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$21MHuman Services$124kEducation$31kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$10kEnvironment$6kHealth$4kInternational$3k
02FY2017 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k17 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES$2,200
VILLAGE HARVEST$2,200
FOOD TANK$2,200
FOOD FORWARD$2,200
ECOAGRICULTURE INTL$2,200
CANCER CAREPOINT$2,000
PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED$1,500
CAMP ONE STEP$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANCER CAREPOINT: $2k → 7%FAMILY GIVING TREE: $1k → 8%TIDE FOUNDATION: $4.6M → 10%CLEAN OCEANS: $3k → 13%FOOD FORWARD: $3k → 14%PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $3k → 17%ECOAGRICULTURE INTL: $3k → 14%CAMP ONE STEP: $2k → 22%SAVORY INSTITUTE ORG: $1k → 12%ONCE ACRE FUND: $3k → 8%GROWING POWER: $2k → 14%FOOD TANK: $2k → 23%ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $2k → 7%STUDENT RISING ABOVE: $8k → 8%TIDE FOUNDATION: $2.6M → 10%CLEAN OCEANS: $2k → 13%FOOD FORWARD: $2k → 14%PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $2k → 17%TIDE FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%CAMP ONE STEP: $2k → 22%STUDENT RISING ABOVE: $5k → 8%ECOAGRICULTURE INTL: $2k → 14%RON D KLINE FOUNDATION: $4.6M → 8%TIDE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%LOS ALTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4.5M → 8%LOS ALTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.6M → 8%RON D KLINE FOUNDATION: $2.6M → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 9 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +256% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$7.3M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+256%
+2%

Still filing today

44%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TS
    THE SHARKS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +15%
  • EI
    ECOAGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +256%
  • FF
    FOOD FORWARD INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +483%

Funded once

  • OA
    ONE ACRE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +258%
  • AC
    ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +48%
  • VH
    VILLAGE HARVEST CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -21%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
2
California Farmlink

As a community development financial institution, we invest in the prosperity and well-being of farmers, ranchers, and fishers who have limited access to financial resources. see schedule o for more information.

Education
3
San Francisco State University Foundation

The foundation is formed for the following specific purposes: (a) to develop and increase the facilities of san francisco state university ("sfsu") for broader educational opportunities and service to students, alumni, and the citizens of…

Education
4
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Uc Law Sf Foundation

To advance the academic and reputational success of uc college of the law, san francisco ("the college") through collaborative and impactful fundraising initiatives.

Education
11
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.

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12
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Giving Tree; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION: $7,170,058 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONRON D KLINE FOUNDATION: $7,139,852 · PhilanthropyRON D KLINE FOUNDATIONLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,040,513 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTIDE FOUNDATION: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,200 · Other+6 more: $14,600 · OtherTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationFOOD FORWARD INC: $5,200 · Food & NutritionVILLAGE HARVEST CORPORATION: $2,200 · Food & NutritionECOAGRICULTURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,200 · EnvironmentSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $2,200 · HealthCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $2,000 · HealthONE ACRE FUND: $3,400 · International
Philanthropy$21,350,423Other$147,300Youth Development$10,500Education$10,000Food & Nutrition$7,400Environment$6,200Health$4,200International$3,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $7,170,058 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRON D KLINE FOUNDATION: $7,139,852 over 2y, 97% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,040,513 over 2y, 54% of budgetTHE SHARKS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $3,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $2,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gordon E and Betty I …Silicon Valley Commun…Los Altos Mountain Vi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David & Janet Kline Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Janet Kline Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to David & Janet Kline Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David & Janet Kline Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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