New York · Private foundation
The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund 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.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 69
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 26
- Total assets, FY2025
- $348M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 89 | $15M | 51% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $8.4M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $5.6M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $2.7M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $3.5M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $23 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Federation of Philadelphia Inc | $1,200,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | $800,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families | $750,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Vanderbilt University | $700,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Council on Teacher Quality Inc | $700,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Yale University | $675,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Washington University | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Niskanen Center Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Lena Foundation | $600,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Relay Graduate School of Education | $506,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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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: WK Kellogg Foundation · Pritzker Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Irving Harris Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Valhalla Foundation · Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Alliance · Turrell Fund · Northwestern University · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc with peer funders
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About The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc
- How much does The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc give?
- The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc reported 99 grants totaling $16,857,159 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (16%), Health (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Health Federation of Philadelphia Inc ($1.2M), Bipartisan Policy Center Inc ($800k), Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families ($750k).
- Does The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc 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 The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, Pritzker Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc based?
- The Esther a & Joseph Klingenstein Fund Inc is based in NY.
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