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Sylvan H Kline Family Foundation at a glance

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Sylvan H Kline Family 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.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$49kArts & Culture$34kInternational$30kHousing & Shelter$20kHealth$17kEnvironment$16kAnimals$11kHuman Services$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC$6,221
NOVA UKRAINE$5,000
KQED INC$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$5,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC$3,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE$1,500
OCEAN VOYAGES INSTITUTE$1,500
RAZOM INC$750
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 (FY19–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMONWEAL: $500 → 8%RITTER CENTER: $5k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $860 → 10%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

NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124k · 13 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$124k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+6%

Still filing today

85%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • NT
    NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +6%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -16%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -35%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
8
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
9
The 5 Gyres Institute

The 5 Gyres Institute (5 Gyres) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles, with a global network of supporters united in the pursuit of a planet free of plastic pollution. 5 Gyres' mission is to empower action against the…

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10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
12
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ocean Voyages Institute. 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

27 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. 27 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SFUSD: $13,500 · OtherSFUSDHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN F…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $6,200 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORN…STANFORD UNIVERSITY - STANFORD CECIL H GREEN LIBRA: $5,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - STANFORD CEC…SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,000 · OtherMarin City Community Development Corporation: $6,500 · OtherMarin City Community Development C…RITTER CENTER: $5,000 · OtherRITTER CENTEREarth Island Institute Inc: $4,500 · OtherEarth Island Institute IncLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $3,000 · Other+6 more: $5,610 · Other+6 moreSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO STATE UN…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE F…SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $6,221 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVA…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…NOVA UKRAINE: $10,750 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINEHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY I…PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $3,000 · InternationalPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA…RAZOM INC: $1,500 · InternationalSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $11,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISC…KQED INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthNEUROENDO…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE C…THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $11,000 · AnimalsCOACHARTORG: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful Littles: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$62,310Education$41,221International$40,250Arts & Culture$22,500Health$17,000Animals$11,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $10,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarin City Community Development Corporation: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $6,221 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHARTORG: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRITTER CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMindful Littles: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Voyages Institute: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic In Schools Today: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Tides FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Marin Community FoundationCA24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Tides Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sylvan H Kline Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sylvan H Kline Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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
    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.

    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 31 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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