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Kline 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.

$253k
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$384kHealth$343kEducation$186kPhilanthropy$130kArts & Culture$95kFood & Nutrition$66kCrime & Legal$61kCommunity Improvement$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k49 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $171k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childrens Medical CTR FDN$20,500
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas$20,294
Southwest Medical Foundation$20,000
VNA$17,750
Crystal Charity Ball$17,600
The Senior Source$17,000
MPowerNow Inc$16,000
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights M$11,000
Dallas Zoo$11,000
Dallas Childrens Advocacy Center$10,000
Cornell University$10,000
Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church$6,500
George W Bush Presidential Center$5,000
Texas 2036$5,000
Genesis Women's Shelter$3,550
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOREFRONT LIVING FDN: $3k → 14%FOREFRONT LIVING FDN: $1k → 14%THE DICKEY FOUNDATION: $500 → 5%FOREFRONT LIVING FDN: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CTR: $3k → 14%Hope Cottage: $250 → 14%MEN OF NEHEMIAH: $100 → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $2k → 14%Community Partners of Dallas: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR: $11k → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $550 → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $1k → 14%Dallas Childrens Advocacy Center: $10k → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR: $9k → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR: $9k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $250 → 14%SOARING EAGLE CENTER: $1k → 14%DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR: $8k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $1k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $1k → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $500 → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $500 → 14%JONATHAN'S PLACE: $300 → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $3k → 14%The Family Place: $2k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $2k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $300 → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $1k → 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
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 84 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

84 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
54

Total granted

$1.4M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+51%

Still filing today

64%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & 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

  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $159k · revenue +26%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +11%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +422%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PHILLIPS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • DC
    DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCY CTR
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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4
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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5
Dcms Foundation

The dcms foundation's mission is to improve the quality and distribution of health services throughout dallas county.

Health
6
Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education
7
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
8
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
9
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
10
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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11
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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12
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Kurt Thomas 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

82 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. 82 of the 159 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
65/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $159,450 · OtherSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INCUNITED WAY OF METROP DALLAS: $98,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF METROP DALLASNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $56,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKMPowerNow Inc: $52,550 · OtherMPowerNow IncTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $46,698 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INCPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN: $40,700 · OtherVNA: $38,250 · OtherUTSW MEDICAL CENTER: $35,000 · Other+95 more: $285,751 · Other+95 moreCornell University: $71,500 · EducationCornell Universi…SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $66,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MED…THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUS…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,210 · EducationCOLORADO STATE U…+13 more: $29,650 · Education+13 moreTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $140,030 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL …UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $20,294 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…+4 more: $8,500 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $110,250 · HealthCHILDREN'S …PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $25,500 · HealthPARKLAND FO…MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $10,000 · HealthMEADOWS MEN…Baylor Health Care System Foundation: $5,500 · Health+6 more: $7,800 · HealthDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $46,933 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $9,300 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $8,100 · Human ServicesHigh Soaring Eagle Center Inc: $6,500 · Human ServicesFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Human ServicesKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE: $3,800 · Human Services+5 more: $4,350 · Human ServicesPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $24,500 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $13,250 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $8,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $5,250 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,750 · Arts & CultureFAMILY COMPASS: $23,750 · Crime & LegalNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $2,850 · Crime & LegalChildren At Risk: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$812,399Education$223,360Philanthropy$168,824Health$159,050Human Services$83,483Arts & Culture$76,750Crime & Legal$27,600

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 budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $159,450 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $140,030 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $110,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $71,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $66,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $56,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $46,933 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $46,698 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN: $40,700 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $24,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $23,750 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $20,294 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,210 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTexas 2036: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $13,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $9,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Place: $8,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Soaring Eagle Center Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWoodall Rodgers Park Foundation: $5,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $5,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,574 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $5,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $5,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOREFRONT LIVING FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE: $3,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $2,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY FUTURES OF TEXAS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTACA INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN TEXAS PGA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FDN ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY COMPASS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds High Soaring Eagle Center 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.

The Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Perot FoundationHillcrest FoundationThe Addy FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…The Hersh FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…Meadows Foundation IncThe Moody Foundation
The Dallas FoundationTX52× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Perot Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Hersh Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Moody 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 Kline Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kline Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 159 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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