· Private foundation
The Kle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $604k
- $250k+8 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC | $839,980 |
| KIPP TEXAS INC | $800,000 |
| BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC | $785,000 |
| TRANSCEND INC | $743,500 |
| AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $632,250 |
| FEMHEALTH USA INC DBA CARAFEM | $502,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $500,000 |
| HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $396,278 |
| UNPARALLELED EDUCATION INC | $150,000 |
| Texas Charter Schools Association | $125,000 |
| THE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL THINKERS | $100,000 |
| SAN MARCOS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $88,788 |
| NYOS CHARTER SCHOOL | $78,000 |
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW (ERN TEXAS) | $62,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BTBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC3× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +136%
- CRCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +13%
- IPIDEA Public Schools2× · 2020–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +78%
Funded once
- CFCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +202%
- TUTri-Angel Unlimited Incone grant, 2022 · $454k · revenue -41%
- MAMISSION ACCOMPLISHEDone grant, 2023 · $78k · revenue +10% · 25% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
The trinity charter schools system has 11 campuses in texas. all 11 campuses work with youth who have emotional difficulties, and need active engagement in planning and guiding their own academic careers through student led credit…
Our mission drives academic and socio-emotional development (see Schedule O) through a rigorous college preparatory, STEM-based learning model. The model is anchored on 21st century skills, embraced by a character-building approach, and…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…
The Chaparral Star Academy DBA Star Charter School provides instruction with the students' individual needs as the primary consideration.
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
Austin Classical School exists to glorify Jesus Christ by co-laboring with families to cultivate wise, virtuous, and humble students through an excellent classical, Christian education.
To equip all students with the academic knowledge and character development necessary to set forth confidently on the path to college and life filled with success.
The primary goal of Great Hearts America-Texas is to graduate thoughtful leaders of character who will contribute to a more philosophical, humane, and just society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charter Fund Inc D/B/a Charter School Growth Fund and the most unlike its peers is The School for Global Thinkers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds TRANSCEND INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NYOS CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds San Marcos Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CODE JAM SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds RePublic Schools Jackson Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Ann Richards School Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Webber Family Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Texas Charter Schools Association · Gates Foundation · George W Brackenridge Foundation · The Ewing Halsell Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Powell Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Kle Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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