· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $40,000 |
| LAMBERT ART AND CULTURE PROGRAM | $35,150 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| WYMAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS | $2,500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +11%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $180k · revenue +76%- TWTHE WYMAN CENTER2× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- VVARIETYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- VTVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUISone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +8%
- FOFOOD OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +71%
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.
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
Provide professional medical services in a variety of medical specialties and disciplines in accordance with the corporation's charitable mission: strengthen and broaden the range of skills and patient populations available for physicians…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Caleres Cares Charitable Trust · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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