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Klm Fund at a glance

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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.

$112k
Granted FY2019
40
Grants FY2019
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

22
’18
25
’19
24
’20

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

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Environment$119kHealth$114kEducation$100kArts & Culture$68kInternational$27kHuman Services$20kReligion$19kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2019 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k37 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
U OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION-CARLSON SCHOOL MAYR-ENDOWMENT$25,000
ST OLAF COLLEGE$15,000
BENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION$15,000
WAYZATA COMMUNITY CHURCH$8,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$5,000
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$4,000
BONITA SPRINGS YMCA$4,000
CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND$3,000
LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION-GOLISANO$2,500
ARTIS-NAPLES$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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE HOSPICE: $100 → 11%HOPE HOSPICE: $100 → 11%EASTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $750 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
CO
VA
MD
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$314k · 34 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
16

Total granted

$314k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+24%

Still filing today

59%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
InternationalEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $48k · revenue +70%
  • BV
    BENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $46k · revenue +95%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MNSD
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +220%
  • UO
    U OF MN-HUMPHREY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS-ARVONNE FRASER FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
6
Council of the Americas Inc

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…

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7
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
8
Rainforest Alliance Inc

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.

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9
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
11
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
12
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
34/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVERGLADES WONDER GARDENS: $94,400 · OtherEVERGLADES WONDER GARDENSU OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION-CARLSON SCHOOL MAYR-ENDOWMENT: $25,000 · OtherU OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION-CARLSON SCHOOL MAYR-ENDO…Wayzata Community Church: $16,500 · OtherWayzata Community ChurchREGION'S HOSPITAL HEALTH PARTNERS CENTER OF MEMORY & AGING: $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF TWIN CITIES: $8,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW FLORIDA: $7,350 · Other+34 more: $54,370 · Other+34 moreREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $83,640 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOU…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthBENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC: $46,110 · EducationBENTLEY VILLAGE F…ST OLAF COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGEGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $1,400 · EducationCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $47,550 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE …ARTIS-NAPLES INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES IN…MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOC…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $3,410 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,750 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,000 · International+3 more: $1,000 · InternationalENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $600 · Environment+2 more: $800 · EnvironmentHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$215,620Health$89,640Education$75,510Arts & Culture$65,960International$22,250Environment$16,400Food & Nutrition$3,000

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 budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $83,640 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $47,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC: $46,110 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $3,410 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $200 over 2y, 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…The US Charitable Gif…Mightycause Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Klm Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klm Fund. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 68 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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