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Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$64k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$12k33%
FY20243$17k0%
FY20233$22k0%
FY20225$35k20%
FY20215$30k20%
FY20206$61k0%
FY20199$90k44%
FY20187$82k57%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$111kHuman Services$107kPhilanthropy$84kHealth$25kArts & Culture$15kEnvironment$14kFood & Nutrition$12kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ved Vignan Mahavidyapeeth$72,00041%
Canterbury School Inc$70,00070%
Quality Life Center of Southwest Florida Inc$35,00022%
Blue Ridge Preservation Inc$25,00020%
Sanibel Sea School Inc$13,65021%
Fort Myers Community Concert Association Inc$12,00081%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$11,50020%
Pace Center for Girlsinc$10,00010%
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Art of Living Foundation$1,20010%
Cypress Lake United Methodist Church - Fort Myers$1,0001n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVed Vignan Mahavidyapeeth: $72,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCanterbury School Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQuality Life Center of Southwest Florida Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBlue Ridge Preservation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSanibel Sea School Inc: $13,650 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFort Myers Community Concert Association Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPace Center for Girlsinc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt of Living Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Southwest Florida Community Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation

How much does Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation give?
Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $11,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Human Services (28%), Philanthropy (22%).
Who are Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ved Vignan Mahavidyapeeth ($72k), Canterbury School Inc ($70k), Quality Life Center of Southwest Florida Inc ($35k).
Does Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation based?
Kleist Family Foundation Formerly the Peter D Kleist Foundation is based in FL.

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 19 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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