· Private foundation
Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lamington Presbyterian Church | $30,000 |
| Rutgers Preparatory School | $28,000 |
| New Hanover Reginal Medical Center | $25,000 |
| NJ Conservation Foundation | $10,000 |
| Raritan Headwaters Association | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| St Augustine of Caterbury Church | $5,000 |
| Hunters Helping the Hungry | $4,000 |
| Mustang Bon Foundation | $4,000 |
| Tewksbury Land Trust | $4,000 |
| Genesis Farm Inc | $4,000 |
| Pinchot Institute | $3,000 |
| Earth Justice Legal Defense | $3,000 |
| Scribble | $3,000 |
| New Jersey League of Conservative Voters | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
RUTGERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +37%- RHRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +76%
New Jersey Audubon Society8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AOAssociation of New Jersey Environmentone grant, 2023 · $10k
Bucknell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +34%- CGCITY GREEN INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Far Hills Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is Scribble. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 95 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 RUTGERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAR HILLS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER PIKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds HUNTERS HELPING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HIGHLANDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds POINTING OUT THE GREAT WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WELL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds FORMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Koven Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Victoria Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc
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 Ernest Christian Klipstein 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Epilepsy Services of New Jersey a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 56% of income from government
- Hunters Helping the Hungry Inc — 55% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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