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Klein Tools Inc Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Klein Tools Inc Charitable 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$79kAnimals$31kEmployment$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kPublic Benefit$20kHuman Services$9kReligion$6kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG HEARTS 4 PAWS RESCUE$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF GREATER CHICAGOLAND: $1k → 14%THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF GREATER CHICAGOLAND: $650 → 14%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

IL
MI
PA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100k · 8 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$100k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • BH
    BIG HEARTS 4 PAWS RESCUE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +543%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +53%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • SF
    SKILLSUSA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • JD
    JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNADTION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • ER
    E4E RELIEF LLCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +74%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American College of Surgeons

The american college of surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.

Education
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
8
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Stephen Sexton Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SKILLSUSA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherSKILLSUSA FOUNDATION INCJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNADTION: $25,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNADTIONCOOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherCOOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONTURNING POINT USA INC: $15,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCLEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETYSALVATION ARMY: $7,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYFLORIDA ENGLISH BULLDOG RESCUE INC: $6,000 · Other+7 more: $17,100 · Other+7 moreBIG HEARTS 4 PAWS RESCUE INC: $25,000 · AnimalsBIG HEARTS 4 P…American Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthAmerican Hear…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…+1 more: $500 · HealthE4E RELIEF LLC: $22,000 · Public Safety & DisasterE4E RELIEF L…TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitWOMENS CENTER OF GREATER CHICAGOLAND INC: $1,650 · Human ServicesHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500 · Education
Other$120,600Animals$25,000Health$23,000Public Safety & Disaster$22,000Public Benefit$5,000Human Services$1,650Education$500

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 budgetSKILLSUSA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG HEARTS 4 PAWS RESCUE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ENGLISH BULLDOG RESCUE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON COLLEGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS CENTER OF GREATER CHICAGOLAND INC: $1,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEPHEN SEXTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Klein Tools Inc Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klein Tools Inc Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Beacon College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to Klein Tools Inc Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Klein Tools Inc Charitable 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 22 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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