· Private foundation
Ruth & Seymour Klein Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLBY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| GREENWICH HOSPITAL | $14,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $10,000 |
| FEDERATED CONSERVATIONISTS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $9,000 |
| MUSELLA FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MY SISTER'S PLACE | $8,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $8,000 |
| PACE SCHOOL OF LAW | $7,000 |
| CAMP VEGA FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE SUMMER CAMP | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +9%
The President and Trustees of Colby College5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +22%- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- WFWorldwide Friends Foundationone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- TOTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -75%
- WCWESTCHESTER COUNTY BAR INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATED CONSERVATIONISTS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds My Sisters Place Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NUNATAKS LTD D/B/A GREENBURGH NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAINWRIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
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: Strypemonde Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Pcsb Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth & Seymour Klein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth & Seymour Klein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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