· Private foundation
Klaus Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL FOR AFRICA'S CHILDREN TODAY IN LESOTHO | $60,200 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MOSESIAN ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| 4 PAWS 4 ABILITY | $5,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $5,000 |
| SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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: 36% of grant dollars ($327k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 64% that went abroad ($575k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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
Beyond the US: 64% of all-years giving ($575k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +87%- STSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +103%
- SVShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- MUMUSGRAVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $28k
- M2Matthew 25 Ministries Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -12%
- CZCINCINNATI ZOOone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.
Animal rescue and adoption facilitator to permanent homes.
The Street Dog Coalition provides free veterinary care and related services to pets of people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. Using a One Health approach to street medicine and pop-up street clinics, we care for lives on both…
The Boneyard Animal Rescue mission is to rescue homeless, abused and abandoned animals and place them in well screened forever homes.
We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
B-Squad Dog Rescue is a volunteer-run organization that networks to relocate unwanted, abandoned, injured or abused dogs from unfortunate situations to the safety of rescue within our own program or via transport to trusted partner…
The Bull Terrier Rescue Mission (aka BTRM) is an organization of like-minded volunteers committed to protecting the health and welfare of Bull Terriers in need of homes. It extracts them from their unfortunate circumstances, and gives them…
Rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of dogs.
SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…
Rescue dogs that are at risk in high kill shelters and ready them for adoption in forever homes
Heavens Home Rescue saves dogs and cats from high kill shelters. We focus our efforts on abuse cases feral dogs hospice cases and pregnant and nursing dogs and cats and the prevention of cruelty to animals.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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
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 FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WASSON WAY ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Queen City Bulldog Rescue Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Klaus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klaus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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