New Jersey · Private foundation
Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $152k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,717
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $152k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $149k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $129k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $149k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $150k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $119k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $124k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $137k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers Preparatory School | $181,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | $103,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Raritan Headwaters Association | $23,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Jersey Audubon Society | $19,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The American Chestnut Foundation | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Far Hills Country Day School | $9,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space | $8,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hunters Helping the Hungry Inc | $7,400 | 2 | 6% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($747k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation with peer funders
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About Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation
- How much does Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation give?
- Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $151,717 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Education (21%), Health (20%).
- Who are Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rutgers Preparatory School ($181k), New Jersey Conservation Foundation ($103k), Raritan Headwaters Association ($23k).
- Does Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Chubb Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation based?
- Ernest Christian Klipstein Foundation is based in NJ.
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