· Private foundation
Jacob and Minnie Kliman Charitable 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SYRACUSE | $5,000 |
| HAMILTON FOOD CUPBOARD | $4,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,500 |
| WCNY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| HAMILTON SENIOR CITIZENS | $2,000 |
| CHENANGO CANAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $2,000 |
| WVRO | $2,000 |
| BRACKETT FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| THE MID YORK INTERFAITH HOLIDAY PRO | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EARVILLE OPERA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPME | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Jacob and Minnie Kliman Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CMCOMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +56%
- LTLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +45%
- MAMusical Associates of Central New York7× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MMUSONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- TBThe Bell Tree Incone grant, 2023 · $2k
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 central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
The mission of the Organization is to conserve working farmland and promote a greater appreciation for the agricultural and forested lands and their associated natural resources that enrich our communities and connect future generations to…
The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
The mission of the orange county land trust is to preserve water resources, critical habitat, rural and urban farmland, scenic viewsheds and ecosystems in and around orange county for the benefit of all who depend on them.
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
To preserve, present and promote the history and culture of Albany County, New York
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
To permanently protect land with significant conservation value in western new york, for the benefit of future generations.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
The mohawk hudson land conservancy enhances the quality of life in the mohawk and hudson river valleys by preserving natural, scenic, agricultural and historic landscapes, in partnership with landowners, not-for-profit organizations,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central New York Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bell Tree Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 47 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 COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MADISON HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Musical Associates of Central New York ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT THE PALACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds Parks & Trails New York Inc ↗
- Who funds Brackett Foundation ↗
- Who funds MID-YORK SENIOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON EMERALD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bell Tree 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: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Mid-York Foundation Inc · Community Benevolent Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jacob and Minnie Kliman Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.