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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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$840k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$14MCivil Rights$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MHealth$502kScience & Tech$105kHuman Services$78kHousing & Shelter$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $604k
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.2M
$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRANSCEND INC: $744k → 9%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $500k → 17%UNPARALLELED EDUCATION INC: $150k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $513k → 10%YOUTH CODE JAM SAN ANTONIO: $73k → 16%KIPP TEXAS INC: $800k → 16%IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOL: $1.4M → 27%FEMHEALTH USA INC DBA CARAFEM: $502k → 14%CHARTER FUND INC: $1.0M → 7%REPUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $13k → 23%TRANSCEND INC: $428k → 9%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $500k → 17%THE SCHOOL FOR GLOBAL THINKERS: $100k → 10%YOUTH CODE JAM SAN ANTONIO: $33k → 16%KIPP TEXAS INC: $800k → 16%IDEA Public Schools: $200k → 27%REPUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $8k → 23%TRANSCEND INC: $180k → 9%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $500k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 10%BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $875k → 16%HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $396k → 16%EDUCATION REFORM NOW (ERN TEXAS): $125k → 17%AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $632k → 10%BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $785k → 16%HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $146k → 16%EDUCATION REFORM NOW (ERN TEXAS): $63k → 17%Austin Achieve Public Schools: $35k → 10%COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $840k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $10k → 16%EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $63k → 17%AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $35k → 10%BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $50k → 16%TEXAS EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY: $454k → 10%COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $771k → 16%COLLEGE FORWARD: $10k → 10%Texas Charter Schools Association: $125k → 10%Texas Charter Schools Association: $125k → 10%FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $75k → 10%Ann Richards School Foundation: $1k → 10%NYOS CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $565k → 10%NYOS CHARTER SCHOOL: $78k → 10%NYOS Charter Schools Inc: $51k → 10%WAYSIDE SCHOOLS: $224k → 10%WAYSIDE SCHOOLS: $25k → 10%E3 ALLIANCE: $8k → 10%PFLUGERVILLE Independent School District: $13k → 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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 17 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$14M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+10%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k 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
EducationHousing & ShelterScience & TechCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BT
    BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +136%
  • CR
    COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +13%
  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +202%
  • TU
    Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $454k · revenue -41%
  • MA
    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
    one grant, 2023 · $78k · revenue +10% · 25% of their budget
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
The Royal School System

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.

Education
2
Austin Trinity School

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…

Education
3
Trinity Charter School

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…

Education
4
Riverwalk Education Foundation Inc

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…

Education
5
St John's School

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…

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6
Valor Texas Education Foundation

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…

Education
7
Chaparral Star Academy

The Chaparral Star Academy DBA Star Charter School provides instruction with the students' individual needs as the primary consideration.

Education
8
Bosque School

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.

Education
9
The Fay School

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,…

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10
Austin Classical School

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.

Education
11
Elevate Collegiate Inc dba Elevate Collegiate Charter School

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.

Education
12
Great Hearts America-Texas

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charter Fund Inc D/B/a Charter School Growth Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $1,710,000 · EducationBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INCCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $1,610,880 · EducationCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INCIDEA Public Schools: $1,608,373 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsKIPP Texas Inc: $1,600,000 · EducationKIPP Texas IncTRANSCEND INC: $1,351,300 · EducationTRANSCEND INCAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $701,806 · EducationAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCNYOS CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $694,050 · EducationNYOS CHARTER SCHOOL INCHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $541,778 · Education+8 more: $796,308 · Education+8 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,331,687 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY…FEMHEALTH USA INC DBA CARAFEM: $502,000 · OtherFEMHEALTH USA …EDUCATION REFORM NOW (ERN TEXAS): $187,500 · OtherEDUCATION REFO…UNPARALLELED EDUCATION INCORPORATED: $150,000 · OtherUNPARALLELED E…+5 more: $83,219 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,498,010 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INV…Tri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $454,000 · Community ImprovementTri-Angel Un…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,500,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTE…CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyMISSION ACCOMPLISHED: $77,575 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH CODE JAM SAN ANTONIO: $105,000 · Science & Tech
Education$10,614,495Other$2,254,406Community Improvement$1,952,010Civil Rights$1,500,000Philanthropy$1,000,000Housing & Shelter$152,575Science & Tech$105,000

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 budgetBASIS TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $1,710,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $1,610,880 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $1,608,373 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $1,600,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,498,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSCEND INC: $1,351,300 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $1,331,687 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $701,806 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNYOS CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $694,050 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $541,778 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTri-Angel Unlimited Inc: $454,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWAYSIDE SCHOOLS: $249,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSan Marcos Education Foundation: $105,278 over 2y, 72% of budgetYOUTH CODE JAM SAN ANTONIO: $105,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetMISSION ACCOMPLISHED: $77,575 over 1y, 25% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION REFORM NOW INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRePublic Schools Jackson Inc: $20,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE FORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ann Richards School Foundation: $1,280 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.

The Webber Family Fou…Michael & Susan Dell …Charter Fund Inc D/B/…Walton Family Foundat…Texas Charter Schools…Gates FoundationGeorge W Brackenridge…The Ewing Halsell Fou…United Way for Greate…The Powell FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Austin Community Foun…
The Webber Family FoundationTX22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Kle Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Kle Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 32 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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