Skip to content

California · Private foundation

Michael Klein 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.

$1k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$1,030
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,030
Organizations funded a year
2 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$204k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Michael Klein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
HealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving1$1k0%
FY20232$11k50%
FY20224$14k50%
FY20215$21k40%
FY20206$23k67%
FY201911$71k64%
FY20188$90k75%
FY201716$102kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$162kPhilanthropy$55kInternational$42kArts & Culture$25kCrime & Legal$20kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$11kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
RI
CA
MO
VA
NC
SC
MS
TX
FL

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 28 grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness: $95,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetThe Joe Namath Charitable Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rape Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChs Coyote Football: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKristi House Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetConnecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis Inc: $6,030 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTherasurf: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Farrah Fawcett Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew Silverman Memorial Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Music Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMovember Foundation: $754 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Pets Alive Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRockin R Rescue Foundation: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Monica Alternative School House Ptsa: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 20.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

California Community FoundationCA11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

Compare Michael Klein Foundation with peer funders

About Michael Klein Foundation

How much does Michael Klein Foundation give?
Michael Klein Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,030 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Michael Klein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (45%), Philanthropy (15%), International (11%).
Who are Michael Klein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Brent Shapiro Foundation for Drug Awareness ($95k), The Joe Namath Charitable Foundation ($35k), Navy Seal Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does Michael Klein Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michael Klein 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 Michael Klein Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Michael Klein Foundation based?
Michael Klein Foundation is based in CA.

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 40 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Michael Klein’s filings →

More from the funding graph