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Robert J & Helen C Kleberg Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert J & Helen C Kleberg Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$37MEducation$27MEnvironment$1.1MArts & Culture$790kYouth Development$740kHuman Services$372kCrime & Legal$170kAnimals$163kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+20 grants · $12M
$109,032
Median grant
7
States reached
$243M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$1,223,568
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$1,020,614
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$1,000,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$994,380
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$838,567
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON$657,003
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN$624,843
FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR$600,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$583,333
STANFORD UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELA$500,000
CHRISTUS SPOHN HEALTH SYSTEMS$500,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$411,905
DRISCOLL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$400,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERISTY$393,928
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$350,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION OF SOUTH TEXAS: $20k → 25%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $59k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $45k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $40k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $40k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $38k → 17%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

WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60M · 51 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
13

Total granted

$60M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+11%

Still filing today

57%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +68%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +47%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $595k · revenue +11%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACGUSETTS EYE AND EAR
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
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
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
4
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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7
Texas Children's Urgent Care

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
8
Scott & White Clinic

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers- Capitol Area

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
12
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Willacy County Ems Inc. 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

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 79 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)
45/46
Grantees still filing
35/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $5,318,358 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY - SCHOOL OF: $5,045,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY - SCHOOL OFUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON: $5,037,126 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSONSTANFORD UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELA: $4,109,033 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,999,940 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $2,176,807 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTINUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $1,600,000 · Other+38 more: $12,800,158 · Other+38 moreWilliam Marsh Rice University: $4,394,380 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice Univers…Baylor College of Medicine: $4,243,478 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,455,855 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,326,423 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSIT…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $981,846 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTexas A&M Foundation: $967,468 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationTeach for America Inc: $700,000 · Education+6 more: $1,062,663 · Education+6 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,500,000 · HealthChildren's Hospita…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,416,666 · HealthVanderbilt Univers…MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER: $1,328,327 · HealthMONELL CHEMICAL SE…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,165,940 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSP…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $1,060,272 · HealthFred Hutchinson Ca…Driscoll Children's Hospital: $1,002,280 · HealthDriscoll Children'…TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000,000 · HealthTEXAS BIOMEDICAL R…SOUTH TEXAS FAMILY PLANNING & HEALTH CORPORATION: $387,500 · Health+3 more: $439,032 · HealthSOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM I: $243,630 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWitte Museum: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $230,000 · EnvironmentTHE VALLEY LAND FUND INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $221,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Action Corporation of South Texas: $20,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF KLEBERG COUNTY: $170,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$39,086,822Education$16,132,113Health$11,300,017Arts & Culture$593,630Environment$260,000Human Services$241,500Crime & Legal$170,000

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 budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $4,394,380 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $4,243,478 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,455,855 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,416,666 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER: $1,328,327 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,326,423 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,165,940 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $1,060,272 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital: $1,002,280 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $981,846 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $967,468 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $700,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $594,929 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KINGSVILLE INC: $510,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $390,967 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FAMILY PLANNING & HEALTH CORPORATION: $387,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $280,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHalo House Foundation: $250,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM I: $243,630 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $230,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $221,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCASA OF KLEBERG COUNTY: $170,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetVALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $120,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWILLACY COUNTY EMS INC: $109,032 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetUPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FESTIVAL OF BOOKS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS: $100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWitte Museum: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKNAPP MEDICAL CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALO FLIGHT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SOUTH TEXAS COUNCIL: $65,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $36,696 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Corporation of South Texas: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARLINGEN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTH PADRE ISLAND BIRDING & NATURE CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOCUS FOUNDATION-FOR OUR CHILDRENS ULTIMATE SUCCESS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE COASTAL BEND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds Driscoll Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KINGSVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS FAMILY PLANNING & HEALTH CORPORATION ↗

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.

Coastal Bend Communit…Behmann Brothers Foun…The John G and Marie …United Way of the Coa…Ed Rachal FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…King Ranch Family Tru…Susser Family Foundat…Nustar FoundationAlice Kleberg Reynold…Celanese FoundationDevary Durrill Founda…
Coastal Bend Community FoundationTX28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Ed Rachal Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · King Ranch Family Trust · Susser Family Foundation · Nustar Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Celanese Foundation · Devary Durrill Foundation Inc

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 Robert J & Helen C Kleberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J & Helen C Kleberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robert J & Helen C Kleberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert J & Helen C Kleberg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 79 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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