Skip to content
Frank L Jr and Margaret T Klapperich Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Frank L Jr and Margaret T Klapperich Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$130kSocial Science$40kReligion$22kArts & Culture$12kFood & Nutrition$7kHealth$5kPhilanthropy$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$199k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Princeton University$25,000
Harvard Business School$20,000
Albion College$2,500
Winnetka Congressional Church$2,500
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Harvard Business School: $20k → 16%Community Foundation Collier: $2k → 10%Harry Chapin Food Bank: $1k → 11%Hidden Lake Gardens: $1k → 12%Albion College: $10k → 14%Stephens College: $1k → 17%Culver Academics: $5k → 10%Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation: $500 → 16%Princeton University: $25k → 11%Harvard Business School: $8k → 16%Princeton Club of Southwest Florida: $1k → 10%Albion College: $8k → 14%Stephens College: $500 → 17%Culver Academics: $1k → 10%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $17k → 11%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $8k → 16%Community Foundation Collier: $1k → 10%Albion College: $5k → 14%Culver Academics: $1k → 10%Princeton University: $8k → 11%Harvard Business School: $5k → 16%Albion College: $3k → 14%Winnetka Congressional Church: $6k → 14%Princeton University: $7k → 11%Harvard Business School: $5k → 16%CLASSIC CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $3k → 10%Albion College: $3k → 14%Winnetka Congressional Church: $5k → 14%Princeton University: $5k → 11%Harvard Business School: $3k → 16%Winnetka Congressional Church: $4k → 14%Princeton Charter Club: $5k → 11%Naples Bontanical Garden: $1k → 10%WINNETKA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $3k → 14%Princeton University: $5k → 11%Winnetka Congressional Church: $3k → 14%Princeton Prospect Foundation: $25k → 11%Naples Art Institute: $1k → 10%Winnetka Congressional Church: $3k → 14%Conservancy of South West Florida: $500 → 10%HADLEY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 14%Hadley School for the Blind: $500 → 14%WFMT: $1k → 14%WFMT PUBLIC RADIO: $500 → 14%St Jude Children's Research Hospital: $5k → 14%Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $3k → 14%Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $1k → 14%Chicago Symphony Orchestra: $500 → 14%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$153k · 11 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$153k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+31%

Still filing today

55%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +51%
  • CS
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    3× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +15%
  • SC
    STEPHENS COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • PP
    PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • SJ
    St Jude Children's Research Hospital
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • PC
    PRINCETON CHARTER CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +107%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Simpson College

Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.

Education
11
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
12
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Princeton Charter Club. 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

24 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. 24 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Trustees of Princeton University: $66,398 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityALBION COLLEGE: $27,500 · EducationALBION COLLEGEPRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationPRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION+5 more: $4,000 · EducationHarvard Business School: $47,500 · OtherHarvard Business SchoolWinnetka Congressional Church: $19,500 · OtherWinnetka Congressional ChurchIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Jude Children's Research Hospital: $5,000 · OtherPRINCETON CHARTER CLUB: $5,000 · Other+11 more: $13,350 · Other+11 moreChicago Symphony Orchestra: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Opera of Chicago: $250 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC: $250 · Arts & CultureBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP: $250 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 · Arts & CultureNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,250 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250 · EnvironmentHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionNorthwestern University: $250 · Recreation & SportsLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100 · AnimalsChicago Zoological Society: $100 · Animals
Education$122,898Other$97,350Arts & Culture$6,000Environment$1,500Food & Nutrition$1,000Recreation & Sports$250Animals$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $66,398 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALBION COLLEGE: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPRINCETON CHARTER CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSIC CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTEPHENS COLLEGE: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Chicago: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Forest College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $100 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Shell USA Company Fou…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Frank L Jr and Margaret T Klapperich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank L Jr and Margaret T Klapperich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report 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.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Frank L Jr and Margaret T Klapperich’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home