· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHERS (RAFT) | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY BICYCLE COALITION | $10,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $8,000 |
| FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FIRST) | $2,500 |
| MILPITAS HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($7.1M)
15 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 7% of Kla Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 -97% · 32% of their budget
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.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…
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.
Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.
Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…
Breakthrough silicon valley prepares highly-motivated students to become first-generation college graduates and inspires emerging leaders to be the next generation of educators and advocates for equity.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
How this is measured
211 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- 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 Urban Ed Academy ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kla Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kla Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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