· Private foundation
Hess and Helyn Kline 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS | $25,000 |
| FAMILY TABLE COLLABORATION | $11,000 |
| PARACADEMIA | $10,500 |
| STEPHANIE'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| HERREN PROJECT | $7,500 |
| CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD HOSPITAL LIGHTKEEPERS | $5,000 |
| ORIGINAL GARDEN STATE CORVETTE CLUB | $5,000 |
| PALS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CAPE COD TOY LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| CHRISTINA'S REPTILE AND ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $2,500 |
| INTERWOVEN | $2,000 |
| SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| DEATH OF CLASSICAL INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +60% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TNTHE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +40%
- CWCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +80%
- TPTHE PALS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CCCAPE COD ALZHEIMERS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LCLOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Cape cod academy cultivates academic excellence and fosters a passion for life-long learning. our nurturing k-12 community is deeply rooted in our core values of scholarship, integrity, compassion, and respect. empowered by meaningful…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
At afcc, our mission is to foster and enhance a dynamic and inclusive arts and cultural landscape accessible to all within the region. as the designated local arts agency (laa) for barnstable county, we serve as the pivotal hub for…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stephanies House Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 49 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 THE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TOY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHANIES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DEATH OF CLASSICAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Voorhees Animal Orphanage Inc ↗
- Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Inc · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Hess and Helyn Kline 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.
- Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- Cape Cod Toy Library Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 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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