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The Kleinknecht Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2022
30
Grants FY2022
29
Organizations funded FY2022
31%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$688,665
Organizations funded a year
13 to 34
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 31% of the organizations The Kleinknecht Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202229$1.3M31%
FY202123$75k39%
FY202034$111k35%
FY201922$88k45%
FY201815$101k27%
FY201713$91kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$1.9MEducation$154kReligion$84kHealth$83kRecreation & Sports$50kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$30kArts & Culture$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgetown University$73,50060%
St Johns Church$56,0006n/a
Northwestern University$47,24960%
Options for Community Living Inc$28,30260%
St Luke's School$26,00020%
Cold Spring Harbor Educational Foundation Inc$15,50047%
Variety Child Learning Center$15,00040%
St Marks Church$7,6862n/a
Children's Museum of the Arts Inc$7,50040%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory$7,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Kleinknecht Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGeorgetown University: $73,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $47,249 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOptions for Community Living Inc: $28,302 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's School: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Educational Foundation Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetVariety Child Learning Center: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Museum of the Arts Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWesthampton Beach Performing Arts Center: $6,336 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFiver Children's Foundation Inc: $6,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHurricane Educational Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetThe Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRoom to Grow National Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Village Improvement Society Library Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCaumsett Foundation Inc: $3,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIsland Harvest Ltd: $3,216 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lower East Side Girls Club of New York Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service League Inc: $2,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChild Mind Institute Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Taylor Babbitt Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cold Spring Harbor Fire House Museum: $500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWolf Conservation Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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 New York Community TrustNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Kleinknecht Family 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.

About The Kleinknecht Family Foundation

How much does The Kleinknecht Family Foundation give?
The Kleinknecht Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,939,844 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Kleinknecht Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (78%), Education (6%), Religion (3%).
Who are The Kleinknecht Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Georgetown University ($74k), St Johns Church ($56k), Northwestern University ($47k).
Does The Kleinknecht Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kleinknecht Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Kleinknecht Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is The Kleinknecht Family Foundation based?
The Kleinknecht Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 58 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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