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Klingstein Foundation

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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$41kArts & Culture$18kEducation$15kHuman Services$3kMembership Benefit$3kFood & Nutrition$3kAnimals$3kYouth Development$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$185k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$4,800
EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$750
Individual grant recipient$500
BPOE LODGE 450$500
ROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA$400
HARRISONBURG SALVATION ARMY$400
MASSANUTTEN REGIONAL LIBRARY$400
H'BURG-R'HAM BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTE$250
VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%PARAMOUNT THEATER: $400 → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%STAUNTON MEDIA ALLIANCE: $500 → 8%VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%WQSV-FM: $400 → 8%VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $700 → 8%VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $500 → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $500 → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $500 → 8%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%ROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA: $500 → 11%HARRISONBURG SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 11%ROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA: $500 → 11%ROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA: $500 → 11%HARRISONBURG SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 11%HARRISONBURG SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 11%HARRISONBURG SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 11%HARRISONBURG SALVATION ARMY: $400 → 11%ROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA: $400 → 11%HARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUB: $1k → 11%HARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUB: $750 → 11%HARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUB: $750 → 11%HARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUB: $750 → 11%HARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUB: $750 → 11%HARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUB: $750 → 11%MASSANUTTEN REGIONAL LIBRARY: $500 → 11%BPOE LODGE 450: $500 → 11%MASSANUTTEN REGIONAL LIBRARY: $500 → 11%BPOE LODGE 450: $500 → 11%BPOE LODGE 450: $500 → 11%MASSANUTTEN REGIONAL LIBRARY: $500 → 11%BPOE LODGE 450: $500 → 11%BPOE LODGE 450: $500 → 11%BPOE LODGE 450: $500 → 11%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 13 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$86k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+193%

Still filing today

38%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
HealthAnimalsInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • EM
    Eastern Mennonite University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +8%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +51%
  • RS
    ROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • SM
    STAUNTON MEDIA ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $400
  • TP
    THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $400 · revenue +193%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $35,500 · OtherVIRGINIA ATHLETIC FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $14,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEastern Mennonite University: $10,500 · OtherEastern Mennonite UniversityHARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUB: $4,800 · OtherHARRISONBURG TURKS BASEBALL CLUBHARRISONBURG SALVATION ARMY: $3,100 · OtherBPOE LODGE 450: $3,000 · OtherMASSANUTTEN REGIONAL LIBRARY: $2,900 · Other+11 more: $8,510 · Other+11 moreROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA: $2,700 · AnimalsPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $1,750 · InternationalWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · EducationTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $400 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $50 · Health
Other$82,660Animals$2,700International$1,750Education$1,750Arts & Culture$400Health$50

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEastern Mennonite University: $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA: $2,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED 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.

  • Who funds Eastern Mennonite University ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA ↗
  • Who funds PLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Klingstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klingstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Klingstein Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Klingstein 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 23 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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