· Private foundation
Kla Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $372k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEVITY-MATCHING | $371,526 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHERS (RAFT) | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY BICYCLE COALITION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $8,000 |
| FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FIRST) | $2,500 |
| MILPITAS HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 77% of grant dollars ($23M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($7.1M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $521k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 23% of all-years giving ($7.1M)
15 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Kla 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.
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.
121 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 115 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +26%
- SJSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $833k · revenue +47%
- PIProject Invent2× · 2022–2023 · $415k · revenue +51% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- BFBRIGHT FUNDS-MATCHINGone grant, 2023 · $761k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $324k
- CFCENTER FOR ADVANCING WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2018 · $320k · revenue -93% · 32% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Treasure Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith in Sobriety Development Corporation. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
211 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. 211 of the 633 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Project Invent ↗
- Who funds SEMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVANCING WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds NAMI SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds OUT IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee 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: Kla Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Atkinson Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
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 Kla 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.
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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