· Private foundation
Klm Fund
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Klm Fund’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Regions Hospital Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 24 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Klm Fund named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $112k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k37 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| U OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION-CARLSON SCHOOL MAYR-ENDOWMENT | $25,000 |
| BENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ST OLAF COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| WAYZATA COMMUNITY CHURCH | $8,000 |
| GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $5,000 |
| BONITA SPRINGS YMCA | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $3,000 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES | $2,500 |
| LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION-GOLISANO | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF LEE COUNTY FL | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW FLORIDA | $2,350 |
| EVERGLADES WONDER GARDENS | $2,200 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $950) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 14 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $48k · revenue +70%
- BVBENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $46k · revenue +95%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MNSDone grant, 2018 · $3k
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +220%
- UOU OF MN-HUMPHREY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS-ARVONNE FRASER FUNDone grant, 2018 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Klm Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.