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The Kling Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $561k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $224,500 |
| SEDONA ARTS CENTER INC | $213,000 |
| VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER | $178,000 |
| INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 360 | $136,500 |
| SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $128,000 |
| LITTLE ORPHAN ANIMALS INC | $113,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| REBOUND MENTORSHIP | $109,500 |
| PEACEFULL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE | $90,000 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA RESTORATIVE JUSTIC | $80,000 |
| TERRA CLASSICAL THEATER | $78,000 |
| RESTORING HOPE IN YOUTH | $77,000 |
| NOOHRA FOUNDATION | $76,000 |
| BIG BREAK FOUNDATION | $74,500 |
| SEASIDE LEGAL SERVICES | $68,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
120 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 11 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- SCSegerstrom Center for the Arts8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +57%
- SISedona International Film Festival & Workshop8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +156%
- ISINTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 3608× · 2017–2024 · $783k · revenue +16% · 81% of their budget
Funded once
- RCRedemption Churchone grant, 2020 · $100k
- NANORTHERN AZ RESTORATIVE JUSTICEone grant, 2021 · $58k
- STSURFING THE NATIONS HUNTINGTON BEACH INCone grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue -27%
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 academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Florida Classical Ballet Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 219 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds SEDONA ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 360 ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TERRA CLASSICAL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOOHRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ORPHAN ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Seaside Legal Services ↗
- Who funds VERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA BEACH SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERRY GRISWOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESTORING HOPE IN YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Unify Sedona A Rainbow Alliance ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REBOUND MENTORSHIP ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Maritime Institute ↗
- Who funds Cosmo Gru Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAUI CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds DECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAGE HILL SCHOOL ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Lacygoldenstein Fund · Argyros Family Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Orange County's United Way
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 Kling Family 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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