California · Private foundation
Ron D Kline 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.
- $340k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 68% of the organizations Ron D Kline Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $597k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $340k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $895k | 68% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $109k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $82k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Forward Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rancho Cielo Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Plant-For-The-Planet US | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Kings Ransom Foundation | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| One Acre Fund | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $33,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Accessurf Hawaii Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 2% |
| LymeLight Foundation | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($273k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ron D Kline Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Ron D Kline Foundation
- How much does Ron D Kline Foundation give?
- Ron D Kline Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $340,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Ron D Kline Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Health (15%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Ron D Kline Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Food Forward Inc ($45k), The Surfrider Foundation ($40k), Rancho Cielo Inc ($40k).
- Does Ron D Kline Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ron D Kline 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 Ron D Kline Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation, Patagoniaorg, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Ron D Kline Foundation based?
- Ron D Kline Foundation is based in CA.
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