Massachusetts · Private foundation
Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust
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.
- $89k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $829k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $11k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $16k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $4k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $29k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $85k | 17% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Eli and Bessie Cohen Camps of Massachusetts Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Yiddish Book Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Tikvah Fund | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($181k), not named here.
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About Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust
- How much does Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust give?
- Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust reported 6 grants totaling $88,644 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Science & Tech (18%), Religion (6%).
- Who are Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buckingham Browne & Nichols School ($40k), Eli and Bessie Cohen Camps of Massachusetts Inc ($15k), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc ($15k).
- Does Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- Where is Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust based?
- Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust is based in MA.
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