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· Private foundation
THE KLEO FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$45k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
3
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Human Services$403kAnimals$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$189k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
online
2020
foodsupportsonline
2021
foodsupportsonline
2022
online
2023
online
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,050
Median grant
3
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HOPELINK$25,000
- CHILD HAVEN$10,000
- WASHINGTON STATE ANIMAL RESPONSE TE$2,500
- SEATTLE TIMES INVESTIGATIVE JOURNAL$1,080
- CORGIAID$1,050
- FERAL CAT SPAYNEUTER PROJECT$1,033
- OLD DOG HAVEN$1,030
- ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION$1,030
- MEOW$1,030
- LIFEWIRE$1,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$601k · 17 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
6
Total granted
$601k
$10k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+51%
+148%
Still filing today
35%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
- HHOPELINK8× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +38%
- LLIFEWIRE7× · 2018–2024 · $112k · revenue +30%
- FCFERAL CAT SPAYNEUTER PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +289%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- STSUMMIT TO SOUND SEARCH RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SASOLDIERS' ANGELSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +148%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Pets Lifeline Inc
Pets Lifeline is dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats and dogs in need in Sonoma Valley through sheltering and adoption, humane education, and community programs.
Animals
2
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc
High Sierra Animal Rescue is a no-kill shelter located in Portola California that is dedicated to saving the lives of homeless adoptable dogs that can no longer be held at county shelters. We are a nonprofit organization focused on…
Animals
3
Spokane Humane Society
Since 1897, Spokane Humane Society continues to provide wellness, medical care, shelter, and placement into loving homes for companion animals in need through foster care, adoptions, community education and outreach.
Animals
4
Pet Network Humane Society
To rescue and rehabilitate animals in danger of euthanasia.
Animals
5
Seattle Area Feline Rescue
SAFe Rescue saves feline lives by taking in homeless cats, giving them the care they need, finding them loving homes, and supporting their human companions.
Animals
6
Willamette Animal Guild
To reduce animal cruelty and suffering, with emphasis on providing low-cost spay/neuter and wellness services. Specifically, WAGs goal is to reduce pet overpopulation through our high-quality, high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter clinic in…
Animals
7
Idaho Animal Rescue Network
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Animals
8
South Pacific County Humane Society
Our mission is to promote compassionate care, spay/neuter, and placement of cats and dogs through service and education. We accomplish this mission by taking in cats and dogs that are homeless or unwanted, providing necessary medical care…
Animals
9
Last Day Dog Rescue Inc
Last Day Dog Rescue's mission is to reduce the number of homeless and euthanized pets by rescuing dogs and cats whose lives and/or well-being are at risk. We provide them with basic needs and care and place them with loving families.
Animals
10
Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation
Seattle Animal Foundation (SAF), is on a mission to make sure every animal finds the love, care, and forever home they deserve. Since 2010, we have been a not-for-profit organization raising critical funds to support life-saving programs,…
Animals
11
Loveleo Rescue
We rescue and rehabilitate abused, injured and abandoned dogs by providing them medical care, training and other services to make them ready to be adopted by the public.
Animals
12
Northwest Spay & Neuter Center
Northwest Spay and Neuter Center provides high-quality, affordable spay and neuter services for cats and dogs in an effort to reduce pet overpopulation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Ventura County and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$403,100Other$188,627Animals$17,623Public Safety & Disaster$1,000
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 HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds LIFEWIRE ↗
- Who funds FERAL CAT SPAYNEUTER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNET ARCHIVE ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OKANDOGS ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP ↗
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.
Seattle FoundationWA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation THE KLEO 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LIFEWIRE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 911190193 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LIFEWIRE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Kleo Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Kleo Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines