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The Klingenstein Third Generation 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.

$788k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MHealth$1.3MPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $774k
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$100,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - SPONSORED PROJECTS$100,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL$100,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY$74,123
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE NYC$50,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$50,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$50,000
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$50,000
SEATLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO$5,000
COUNCIL OF FOUNDATIONS$4,000
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$2,500
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $60k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%THE REGENTS UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA: $43k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $63k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $50k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE NYC: $50k → 17%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA-GRANTS AND FUNDS MANA: $50k → 16%CHILDRENS NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - SPONSORED PROJECTS: $100k → 11%VANDERBILT UNIVERSiTY MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICA: $50k → 14%ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $30k → 19%THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50k → 23%MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 6%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $30k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH: $100k → 22%THE REGENTS UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA: $30k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $60k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA DAVIS: $50k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NYC: $50k → 17%CHILDRENS NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 14%STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $50k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - SPONSORED PROJECTS: $100k → 11%ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50k → 23%MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 6%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $33k → 8%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NYC: $50k → 17%ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO: $33k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY: $157k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY: $74k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY: $35k → 14%AACAP: $32k → 14%AACAP: $32k → 14%AACAP: $32k → 14%AACAP: $32k → 14%AACAP: $32k → 14%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 24 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
28

Total granted

$2.2M
$909k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+13%

Still filing today

38%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +44%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $298k · revenue +19%
  • MH
    MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Corporation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY: $298,373 · OtherAMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - SPONSORED PROJECTS: $200,000 · OtherWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - SPONSORED PROJECTSMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCAACAP: $160,000 · OtherAACAPUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $120,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL: $100,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $100,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $90,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · Other+34 more: $870,438 · Other+34 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $400,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $187,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND S…The Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $100,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State…Fordham University: $100,000 · EducationFordham UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY I…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $45,000 · Education+3 more: $12,500 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $60,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $60,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthCouncil on Foundations Inc: $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,328,811Education$1,295,000Health$305,000Philanthropy$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $400,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY: $298,373 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $187,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foundations Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,500 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY ↗
  • Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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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How do I get to The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Klingenstein Third Generation 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 64 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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