· Private foundation
Klionsky 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICANS FOR BEN GURION UNIVERSITY | $29,500 |
| THE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP | $10,000 |
| CHABAD OF GREATER HILTON HEAD | $2,700 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT MIGDAL HATORAH | $1,800 |
| CHABAD OF DOWNTOWN AUSTIN | $1,500 |
| BEACH CATS SAILORS OF HHI INC | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $135k · revenue +34%
- ZPZabs Place2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +467%
- CYCAMP YOUNG JUDAEA MIDWEST INC2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $500
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +57%
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.
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.
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL ADVOCACY GROUP ↗
- Who funds Zabs Place ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT MIGDAL HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Klionsky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klionsky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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