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The Howard & Pearl Klein Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Howard & Pearl Klein 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.

$26k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Howard & Pearl Klein Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of South Palm Beach County Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Howard & Pearl Klein Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $26k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
6
’18
4
’19
5
’20
6
’21
3
’22
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$48kPhilanthropy$34kArts & Culture$17kHealth$13kHuman Services$6kInternational$2kRecreation & Sports$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$250
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,750
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM$5,245
THEATRE ASPEN$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$5,000
4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA$3,750
ELS FOR AUTISM$3,750
ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION$2,500
LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $3k → 22%LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%NATIONAL LINKS TRUST: $1k → 14%ELS FOR AUTISM: $4k → 11%4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $4k → 13%THEATRE ASPEN: $5k → 6%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $6k → 12%TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 16%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $250 → 22%LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HELPING ISRAEL FUND: $500 → 11%THEATRE ASPEN: $5k → 6%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $6k → 12%TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 16%LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%THEATRE ASPEN: $5k → 6%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $5k → 12%LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION: $4k → 6%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION: $4k → 6%TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $5k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION: $4k → 6%CHABAD LUBAVITCH: $1k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION: $3k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $5k → 11%ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION: $3k → 6%JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY: $1k → 11%ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION: $3k → 6%THEATRE ASPEN: $2k → 6%MOUNTAIN RESCUE ASPEN: $250 → 6%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$70k · 5 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$70k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+129%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationReligionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • AJ
    Aspen Jewish Center
    6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +116%
  • TA
    THEATRE ASPEN
    4× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +147%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CL
    CHABAD LUBAVITCH
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • NL
    NATIONAL LINKS TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +476%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +53%
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
Jewish Life Foundation
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2
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
3
University of Judaism Foundation
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4
Sherit Isroel
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5
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Jewish Hospitals and Education Centers of Brazil Inc
Philanthropy
7
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.

International
8
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
10
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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11
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc

The international fellowship of christian and jews is the leading non-profit building bridges between christians and jews, blessing israel and the jewish people around the world with, humanitarian care and life-saving aid.

—
12
Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona

Jewish philanthropies of southern arizona (jpsa) is committed to achieving the full potential of jewish philanthropy, now and for future generations. comprised of jewish federation of southern arizona (jfsa or federation) and jewish…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM: $27,575 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHOLOMAspen Jewish Center: $19,800 · OtherAspen Jewish Center4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $3,750 · Other4KIDS OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC+2 more: $1,268 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $31,442 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PH…THEATRE ASPEN: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ASPENNATIONAL LINKS TRUST: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL LINKS T…American Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthAmerican He…THE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthTHE LITTLE …ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $3,750 · HealthELS FOR AUT…TIKVA CORP: $2,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 · InternationalHelping Israel Fund: $500 · ReligionMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $250 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$52,393Philanthropy$33,942Arts & Culture$18,000Health$12,750Education$2,000International$1,000Religion$500Public Safety & Disaster$250

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $31,442 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Jewish Center: $19,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BABY FACE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LINKS TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Israel Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Howard & Pearl Klein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard & Pearl Klein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 16 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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