How much does The Kling Family Foundation give?

The Kling Family Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $2,628,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 87 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Kling Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Religion (9%), Human Services (8%).

Who are The Kling Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Segerstrom Center for the Arts ($1.4M), Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop ($1.0M), Integrated Solutions 360 ($783k).

Does The Kling Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Kling Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Kling Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Lacygoldenstein Fund, Argyros Family Foundation.

Where is The Kling Family Foundation based?

The Kling Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Kling Family Foundation

The Kling Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$2.6M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$225k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.7MReligion$1.4MHuman Services$1.3MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$1.2MAnimals$727kCrime & Legal$657kEducation$584kOther$0

02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $80k
$10k–50k32 grants · $561k
$50k–250k19 grants · $2.0M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$786k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 120 repeat orgs$774k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120

Total granted

$14M

$599k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+37%

Still filing today

54%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SC
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +57%
SI
Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +156%
IS
INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS 360
8× · 2017–2024 · $783k · revenue +16% · 81% of their budget

Funded once

RC
Redemption Church
one grant, 2020 · $100k
NA
NORTHERN AZ RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
one grant, 2021 · $58k
ST
SURFING THE NATIONS HUNTINGTON BEACH INC
one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue -27%

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.

The Honarkar Foundation

Public Benefit

California Academy of Sciences

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,…

Arts & Culture

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

The Ocean Foundation

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…

Environment

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

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…

Health

Opera Santa Barbara

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…

Arts & Culture

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture

California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward; 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.

04the grantee network

139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 219 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

132/139

Grantees still filing

100/139

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$5,244,200Other$6,769,800Human Services$1,201,250Health$836,900Animals$623,700Youth Development$604,500Education$487,800

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA42.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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By state

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