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The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc

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.

$376k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$112,500
Organizations funded a year
14 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$4.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$363k38%
FY202316$334k6%
FY202218$295k11%
FY202119$616k26%
FY202014$534k36%
FY201916$516k19%
FY201819$725k32%
FY201722$592kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.4MEducation$576kReligion$320kPhilanthropy$245kInternational$96kRecreation & Sports$91kEnvironment$60kHuman Services$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
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MA
NJ
MD
NC
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc$2,354,500810%
McDonogh School Incorporated$260,48070%
John Carroll School Inc$150,7508n/a
The Harford Day School Incorporated$99,50080%
The Trustees of the Ladew Topiary Gardens Inc$60,00080%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$40,60060%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$29,50030%
Maryvale Preparatory School$25,0005n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maryland Inc$24,00040%
Gilman School Incorporated$19,50080%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($810k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc: $2,354,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetMcDonogh School Incorporated: $260,480 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harford Day School Incorporated: $99,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of the Ladew Topiary Gardens Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $40,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $29,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Maryland Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGilman School Incorporated: $19,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Char Hope Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHarlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaltimore Area Council #220 Boy Scouts of America: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLifebridge Health Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of Harford County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPothawira International: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSusquehannock Wildlife Society Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Ability Experience: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harford Community College Foundation Inc: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlbert P Close Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCalvert School Incorporated: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Museum of Maryland Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily and Children's Services of Centra: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund IncMD32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Inc · The Dresher Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Carmen and Victoria Deyesu Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Harford County Inc · Mary Jean and Oliver Travers Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc

How much does The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc give?
The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $376,115 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (60%), Education (14%), Religion (8%).
Who are The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ($2.4M), McDonogh School Incorporated ($260k), John Carroll School Inc ($151k).
Does The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc 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 Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kleins Shoprite of Maryland Charitable Fund Inc, The Dresher Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc based?
The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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