· Private foundation
The Cline Family Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SQUASH & EDUCATION ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND | $40,925 |
| TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| US SQUASH | $25,000 |
| STREETSQUASH | $20,000 |
| ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE | $15,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING | $15,000 |
| RHODYSQUASH | $15,000 |
| SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA | $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 (FY17–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TGTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +234%
- BBBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION6× · 2017–2022 · $144k · revenue +53%
- SASQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +307%
Funded once
- BBUCKNELLone grant, 2017 · $30k
- BBATESone grant, 2017 · $10k
- GFGHYC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The purpose of the organization is to build an enriching educational setting for under-served brooklyn youth, using athletics as a vehicle to inspire them to fulfill their academic, physical, and personal potential. bkysc is driven by an…
How this is measured
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 74 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 THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SQUASH AND EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds City Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Heights Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGREENS CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE SOLA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Strong Foundation of New York · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · The Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Boston Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cline Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cline Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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