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The Kline Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kline Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$128k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$366kArts & Culture$236kEducation$92kReligion$90kFood & Nutrition$64kYouth Development$49kPhilanthropy$47kHuman Services$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC$19,000
FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOL$10,000
PARK SYNAGOGUE OF CLEVELAND$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC$7,800
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC$6,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$6,000
CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND$5,000
BETH TIKVAH OF NAPLES$4,000
LAWRENCE SCHOOL$2,500
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL$2,000
THE MUSICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION DBA THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$2,000
ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION$2,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS ORGANIZATION: $250 → 17%FRIENDS OF YASHAR LACHAYAL: $3k → 8%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $2k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $2k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $2k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $1k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $1k → 17%BIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $1k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $50 → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $8k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $7k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $4k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $4k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$927k · 34 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
29

Total granted

$927k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • FM
    FUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +59%
  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +10%
  • CC
    CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TC
    TIKVA CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -55%
  • EF
    EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
6
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
7
The Jerusalem Connection
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8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
9
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
11
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
12
Sherit Isroel
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Disabled Veterans. 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

54 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. 54 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM: $299,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEMFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $56,020 · OtherFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLSFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $34,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLEUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+36 more: $120,605 · Other+36 moreINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $212,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE…The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $16,475 · Arts & Culture+8 moreCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $49,000 · EducationJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $7,500 · EducationTIKVA CORP: $5,740 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $4,000 · Education+2 more: $1,750 · EducationGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $55,250 · Food & NutritionCLEVELAND CHESED CENTER: $10,700 · Food & NutritionJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $33,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $4,510 · PhilanthropyMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc: $3,750 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,140 · PhilanthropyCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $23,620 · Human ServicesBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $7,500 · Human ServicesFriends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $2,700 · Human Services+2 more: $300 · Human ServicesMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Other$555,375Arts & Culture$239,475Education$77,990Food & Nutrition$65,950Philanthropy$42,400Human Services$34,120Health$24,100

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 budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $212,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFUCHS MIZRACHI SCHOOLS: $56,020 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $55,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $49,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $33,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $23,620 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC: $12,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMENORAH PARK FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLEVELAND CHESED CENTER: $10,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $10,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPH & FLORENCE MANDEL JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF CLEVELAND: $7,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTIKVA CORP: $5,740 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $4,510 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKULANU INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMatan BSayser of Cleveland Inc: $3,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Food and Peace Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrothers for Life: $1,430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRUGGLE TO SAVE ETHIOPIAN JEWRYINC: $1,090 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH HATORAH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of IDF Widows and Orphans Organization Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNYAKA INC: $145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Irving I Stone Founda…The Albert B & Audrey…Jewish Federation of …J David & Rebecca Hel…Marla & Joseph Shafra…Richard Horvitz and E…The Miller Family Fou…The Teri and Dan Germ…The Wuliger FoundationAbr Family Foundation…The Horowitz Ratner F…Giant Eagle Foundation
Irving I Stone FoundationOH28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Irving I Stone Foundation · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · J David & Rebecca Heller Family Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · The Miller Family Foundation · The Teri and Dan German Family Foundation Inc · The Wuliger Foundation · Abr Family Foundation No 1 · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · Giant Eagle 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 Kline Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kline Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The Kline Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kline 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.

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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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