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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 FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
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Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$162kPhilanthropy$55kInternational$42kArts & Culture$25kCrime & Legal$20kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$11kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,030
Median grant
1
States reached
$204k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Connecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis$1,030
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $2k → 9%CHILDREN'S MUSIC FUND: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of Michael Klein Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Michael Klein Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$184k · 8 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
30

Total granted

$184k
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • TB
    THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS
    6× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +56%
  • TJ
    THE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $35k · revenue +202%
  • KH
    KRISTI HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ELLISON INSITUTE OF USC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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The Sam Simon Charitable Foundation
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2
Nick Simons Foundation International
Philanthropy
3
Chaim Maleh Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Will Smith Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Chasdei Shimon Foundation
Religion
6
Sam Francis Foundation
Education
7
Sara Rechnitzer Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Dr Samin Sharma Family Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Cal Med Foundation
Education
11
The Krauss Foundation for Health and Humanity
International
12
The Portman Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Indianapolis Colts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rockin R Rescue Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySubstance Abuse TreatmentYouth Sports Booster Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsPublic School District Foun…Animal Rescue and AdoptionAffordable Housing Developm…Land Conservation Organizat…Classical Music EnsemblesChristian Missionary Organi…Jewish Community FederationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Community Health CentersVeteran Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%57%20–35yr11%5%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/30
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,948

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.

05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESS — $95,000 · OtherTHE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION FOR DRUG AWARENESSTHE ELLISON INSITUTE OF USC — $25,000 · OtherTHE ELLISON INSITUTE OF USCTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · Other+17 more — $39,243 · Other+17 moreTHE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FO…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AME…LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUS…THE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE INDIANAPOLIS COLTS FOUND…THE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATIO…JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND — $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION…MATTHEW SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $600 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 · HealthCEDARS-SI…Connecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis Inc — $6,030 · HealthConnectin…Ronald McDonald House Global — $5,000 · HealthRonald Mc…+1 more — $754 · HealthNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHS COYOTE FOOTBALL — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTHERASURF — $5,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS MUSIC FUND — $1,000 · Human ServicesKRISTI HOUSE INC — $7,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$189,243Philanthropy$89,600Health$31,784Arts & Culture$25,000Recreation & Sports$11,000Human Services$8,000Crime & Legal$7,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 budgetTHERASURF — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetROCKIN R RESCUE FOUNDATION — $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MONICA ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL HOUSE PTSA — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

California Community …National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Michael Klein Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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