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Kla 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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k90 grants · $345k
- $10k–50k75 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEVITY MATCHING | $3,244,353 |
| BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY | $150,000 |
| SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY | $125,000 |
| INDIA STEM FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| CORPSGIVING FOUNDATION | $104,306 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $100,000 |
| LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR SCIENCE | $83,334 |
| GLYPH COMMUNITY LIMITED | $80,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $78,200 |
| NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY NORTH AMERICA FOUNDATION INC | $78,125 |
| RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING | $77,500 |
| BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC | $75,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES INC | $75,000 |
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 — 38% of grant dollars ($5.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 62% that went abroad ($8.5M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% 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 — 62% of all-years giving ($8.5M)
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 990filings; 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 8% 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. Read by recipient address, 6% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 12% — more 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.
87 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 106 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +3%
CITY YEAR INC2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +10%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $153k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- WAWORLD ASSOCIATION OF GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTSone grant, 2024 · $250k
- AZACH-SHAV ZIONISIM 2000 ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $140k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $135k
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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To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.
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Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 27 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 277 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 COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds CORPSGIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Project Invent ↗
- Who funds Community Resources for Science ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds African Diaspora Network ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 Applied Materials Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · The Sobrato Family 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% 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
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pdx Diaper Bank — 2% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% 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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Find your warmest path to Kla Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.