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Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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3
’18
2
’19
0
’20
1
’21
0
’22
0
’23
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’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$524kScience & Tech$143kReligion$48kArts & Culture$20kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$5kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$829k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$50,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$25,000
IN GEVEB$5,000
YIDDISH BOOK CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON$1,644
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAMP PEMBROKE: $10k → 8%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%YIDDISH BOOK CENTER: $5k → 12%THE ISABELLE STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $5k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH: $5k → 17%TULANE CHABAD: $8k → 23%CAMP PEMBROKE: $5k → 8%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%THE ISABELLE STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $5k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%TIKVAH FUND: $100 → 17%TULANE CHABAD: $3k → 23%BRANDEIS HILLEL: $20k → 8%THE ISABELLE STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $5k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%TULANE CHABAD: $2k → 23%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING (CAMERA): $1k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%TULANE CHABAD: $1k → 23%TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL: $5k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $18k → 8%TEMPLE EMMANUEL: $10k → 8%TEMPLE EMMANUEL: $10k → 8%TEMPLE EMMANUEL: $10k → 8%TEMPLE EMMANUEL: $8k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $4k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $3k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $2k → 8%SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $2k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $25k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $15k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 8%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 6 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$220k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+179%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +47%
  • EA
    ELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +84%
  • ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • YI
    YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +179%
  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
8
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
9
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
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
12
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brandeis University; the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. 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

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 16 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $142,741 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL+1 more: $100 · EducationSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON: $98,644 · OtherSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL…TEMPLE EMMANUEL: $38,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMMANUELIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 · OtherELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS O…Individual grant recipient: $13,780 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $11,000 · Other+3 moreISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $5,000 · Religion
Education$567,841Other$196,424Arts & Culture$20,000Religion$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $142,741 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $100 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ELI AND BESSIE COHEN CAMPS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klingenstein Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–20%
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 16 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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