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Kln 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.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$814k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Kln Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$68k27%
FY202313$59k23%
FY202214$65k0%
FY202114$57k21%
FY202014$48k21%
FY20199$59k0%
FY201814$64k43%
FY20179$60kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$166kPhilanthropy$113kYouth Development$55kFood & Nutrition$28kHousing & Shelter$27kEducation$20kReligion$16kArts & Culture$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Kln Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Tarrant County$104,00080%
Safehaven of Tarrant County$97,00070%
Grace$45,0005n/a
Girls Inc$42,00050%
Hopelink$20,50040%
The Family Place$15,50070%
The Attic Learning Community$15,00030%
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County$14,00040%
The Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County$12,50070%
Meals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County$12,00040%
Mission Arlington Inc$10,5006n/a
North Texas Food Bank$10,00070%
The YouthVantage Alliance$8,00020%
The Dallas Morning News Charities$6,0005n/a
Grace Bible Church$5,0001n/a
Old Union Elementary School PTO$5,00012%
Illinois Theatre Association$5,0001n/a
Luke 181 Foundation$3,00011%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$3,00030%
Tarrant Area Food Bank$2,00010%
Loving Lunches Inc$2,0001n/a
Meals on Wheels$2,00012%
Studio East Training for the Performing Arts$2,00010%
Mission Metroplex Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kln Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Tarrant County: $104,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSafehaven of Tarrant County: $97,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGirls Inc: $42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHopelink: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Attic Learning Community: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc of Tarrant County: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe YouthVantage Alliance: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOld Union Elementary School PTO: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLuke 181 Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetStudio East Training for the Performing Arts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission Metroplex Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Texas Instruments FoundationTX17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · America's Charities · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Markham Family Foundation · The Morris Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · United Way of Tarrant County · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax

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.

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About Kln Foundation

How much does Kln Foundation give?
Kln Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kln Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Philanthropy (24%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are Kln Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Tarrant County ($104k), Safehaven of Tarrant County ($97k), Grace ($45k).
Does Kln Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kln Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kln Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, America's Charities, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
Where is Kln Foundation based?
Kln Foundation is based in TX.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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