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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.

$7.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
195
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.2MEducation$3.2MHealth$1.2MYouth Development$1.0MScience & Tech$515kFood & Nutrition$500kArts & Culture$353kCommunity Improvement$330kOther$0
02FY2025 · 195 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k90 grants · $345k
  • $10k–50k75 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.2M
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$100,000
10000 DEGREES$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
02The need
03

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: 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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN SERVICE ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 26%GIRAFFE LAUGH INC: $4k → 8%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%CAN'D AID: $20k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $8k → 15%AMERICAN SERVICE ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 26%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%STAND WITH TRANS: $5k → 8%CAN'D AID: $9k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $16k → 15%JEMFRIENDS INC: $5k → 8%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $100k → 12%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $3k → 11%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS: $2k → 11%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 8%THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%ROAD TO HOPE: $2k → 8%PROJECT LEMONADE: $5k → 12%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 14%BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $75k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 62% of all-years giving ($8.5M)

15 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$5.0M · 2 grants
Israel$1.2M · 38 grants
United Kingdom$584k · 23 grants
India$376k · 12 grants
Singapore$330k · 10 grants
Taiwan$252k · 9 grants
South Korea$193k · 8 grants
Germany$174k · 36 grants
Japan$138k · 9 grants
Belgium$55k · 4 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Kla Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 6% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 12%.

Kla Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 62% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 87 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
83

Total granted

$9.8M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

57%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +10%
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +3%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $153k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORLD ASSOCIATION OF GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • AZ
    ACH-SHAV ZIONISIM 2000 ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $140k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $135k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Stem Advantage

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…

Youth Development
2
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
3
AI4ALL

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.

Youth Development
4
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
5
Breakthrough Silicon Valley

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.

Education
6
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

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…

Philanthropy
7
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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8
Compass Science Communication Inc

Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.

Science & Tech
9
Citizen Schools Inc

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…

Education
10
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
11
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
12
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

122 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. 122 of the 277 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/122
Grantees still filing
43/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENEVITY MATCHING: $5,042,899 · OtherBENEVITY MATCHING+147 more: $4,947,451 · Other+147 moreCOLLEGE TRACK: $400,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRA…SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC: $225,000 · EducationSCIENCE IS …SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationSAN JOSE PU…10000 DEGREES: $100,000 · Education10000 DEGRE…Community Resources for Science: $83,334 · EducationCommunity R…RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $77,500 · EducationRESOURCE AR…Santa Clara Schools Foundation: $52,500 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationOUT IN TECH INC: $50,000 · EducationBEAVERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+10 more: $179,800 · Education+10 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $153,200 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $100,000 · HealthNAMI SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $100,000 · HealthVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $50,000 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $43,560 · HealthFriends of Children with Special Needs: $25,000 · Health+3 more: $25,000 · HealthDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $375,000 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGE CITY INCLUSIVE SPORTS: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSilicon Valley Bicycle Coalition: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Human ServicesBENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesCan'd Aid: $28,750 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $24,000 · Human Services+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $250,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$9,990,350Education$1,368,134Health$596,760Recreation & Sports$435,000Arts & Culture$375,000Human Services$317,750Food & Nutrition$255,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $400,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $375,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC: $225,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCORPSGIVING FOUNDATION: $154,101 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $153,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $125,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNAMI SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject Invent: $85,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Resources for Science: $83,334 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $77,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAfrican Diaspora Network: $75,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $66,668 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY: $54,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Clara Schools Foundation: $52,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUT IN TECH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBEAVERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $43,560 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $40,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYpsilanti Community Schools Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetBRIDGE CITY INCLUSIVE SPORTS: $30,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCan'd Aid: $28,750 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMy Digital TAT2 Inc: $27,731 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPIEDMONT MAKERS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA SCIENCE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget826 MICHIGAN INC: $20,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNeutral Zone: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Kla FoundationBright Funds Foundati…The Applied Materials…Ann Arbor Area Commun…Los Altos Mountain Vi…The David and Lucile …United Way of Washten…Silicon Valley Commun…Analog Devices Founda…San Jose Mercury News…Tides FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…
Kla FoundationCA91.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kla Foundation?

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 277 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home