California · Private foundation
Gerald M Kline Family 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Gerald M Kline Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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 | 26 | $1.1M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $1.1M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $860k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $909k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $940k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $977k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $777k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $857k | 80% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano | $900,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kent District Library | $251,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Girls Incorporated of Alameda County | $250,000 | 8 | 1% |
| John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Berkeley Repertory Theatre | $42,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $37,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple Ramat Zion | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerald M Kline Family 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.
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How this is measured
About Gerald M Kline Family Foundation
- How much does Gerald M Kline Family Foundation give?
- Gerald M Kline Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $1,515,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gerald M Kline Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Gerald M Kline Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano ($900k), Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc ($300k), Alameda County Community Food Bank ($300k).
- Does Gerald M Kline Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gerald M Kline Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gerald M Kline Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, Ibm International Foundation, Coit Family Foundation.
- Where is Gerald M Kline Family Foundation based?
- Gerald M Kline Family Foundation is based in CA.
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