Illinois · Private foundation
Klaff Family 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.
- $8.5M
- Granted FY2023
- 82
- Grants FY2023
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Klaff Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 44 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Klaff Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 54 organizations, $8M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 13
- Total assets, FY2023
- $223M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Klaff Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 79 | $6.7M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $8.5M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $7.9M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $558k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $338k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $610k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $453k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $1,359,998 | 3 | 3% |
| Ner L Horeinu Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 5% |
| The Harold Grinspoon Foundation | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Start Early | $838,333 | 2 | 1% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $765,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hands - US | $722,500 | 2 | 39% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $646,300 | 6 | 1% |
| The Thresholds | $581,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fundacion Tzedaka USA Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 38% |
Show all 159 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Klaff Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Klaff Family Foundation
- How much does Klaff Family Foundation give?
- Klaff Family Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $8,479,057 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Klaff Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Religion (12%), Education (5%).
- Who are Klaff Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ($1.4M), Ner L Horeinu Inc ($1.0M), The Harold Grinspoon Foundation ($1.0M).
- Does Klaff Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Klaff Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Klaff Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Circle of Service Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Klaff Family Foundation based?
- Klaff Family Foundation is based in IL.
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