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Klingenstein 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.

$127k
Granted FY2019
40
Grants FY2019
14
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

88% of Klingenstein Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Klingenstein Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 28 organizations, $127k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
30
’18
28
’19
5
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
2
’24

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

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.

Philanthropy$619kEducation$86kReligion$52kHealth$36kArts & Culture$29kSocial Science$20kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2019 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k35 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$877k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$25,000
COMMUNITY FUNDS INC$25,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$10,000
BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$10,000
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$10,000
EL EDUCATION$6,181
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$5,000
THE HERTZ FOUNDATION$5,000
CONGREGATION EMANU-EL$4,010
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$3,500
ACLU FOUNDATION$2,500
THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND$1,500
UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM$1,500
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,200
BALTIMORE CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFE HORIZON: $2k → 17%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER: $2k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $2k → 9%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $2k → 9%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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$312k · 31 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2019, 8 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
17

Total granted

$312k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EE
    EL EDUCATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $26k · revenue +43%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +22%
  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • FA
    FANNIE AND JOHN HERTZ FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +142%
  • SH
    SAFE HORIZON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +28%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
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
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

45 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. 45 of the 75 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
38/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $468,750 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC: $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC59TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH: $35,915 · Other59TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCHCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $25,000 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDTHE TAFT SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $20,000 · OtherTHE TAFT SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDCONGREGATION EMANUEL: $15,710 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN NEW…THE TAFT SCHOOL ALUMNI FUND: $10,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Other+37 more: $57,396 · Other+37 moreEL EDUCATION INC: $26,181 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 · Education+6 more: $3,250 · EducationNew York Historical Society: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $8,326 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,550 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK POPS INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,550 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $20,000 · Social ScienceOUTWARD BOUND INC: $9,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $1,000 · EnvironmentHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,000 · EnvironmentBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,500 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $3,250 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500 · HealthACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY: $500 · Health+1 more: $250 · Health
Philanthropy$513,750Other$264,021Education$39,431Arts & Culture$26,926Social Science$20,000Environment$12,000Health$10,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $468,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEL EDUCATION INC: $26,181 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $8,326 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFANNIE AND JOHN HERTZ FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK POPS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Outward Bound School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO ENGLISH: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS ENGLISH FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $50 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Outward Bound IncCommunity Foundation …The Arthur M Blank Fa…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Stella and Charles Gu…The Ayco Charitable F…United Way WorldwideNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
Outward Bound IncCO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Outward Bound Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Klingenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klingenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Klingenstein Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Klingenstein 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 75 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home