· Private foundation
Jacob and Minnie Kliman Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $2,000 |
| CHENANGO CANAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| HAMILTON SENIOR CITIZENS | $2,000 |
| WVRO | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| BRACKETT FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ARTS AT THE PALACE | $1,000 |
| THE MID YORK INTERFAITH HOLIDAY PRO | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN MADISON HERITAGE TRUST | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Jacob and Minnie Kliman Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 82%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Parks & Trails New York Inc ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT THE PALACE INC ↗
- Who funds Brackett Foundation ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON EMERALD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-YORK SENIOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds EARLVILLE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bell Tree Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jacob and Minnie Kliman Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacob and Minnie Kliman Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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