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The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$2.4MEducation$576kReligion$320kPhilanthropy$245kInternational$96kRecreation & Sports$91kEnvironment$60kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $253k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPPER CHESAPEAKE HEALTH FOUNDATION$112,500
MCDONOGH SCHOOL$90,865
ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE$50,000
JOHN CARROLL SCHOOL$20,000
HARFORD DAY SCHOOL$17,500
THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND$15,500
HARLEM LACROSSE$10,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$8,500
LADEW GARDENS$7,500
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$6,000
LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY$5,000
GILMAN SCHOOL$3,500
HIGHLANDS SCHOOL$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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SPRINGBOARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $750 → 11%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND: $16k → 19%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND: $5k → 19%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND: $3k → 19%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND: $1k → 19%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

WI
MI
NY
MA
NJ
MD
NC
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 25 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$3.9M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+68%

Still filing today

48%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureAnimalsYouth 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

  • UC
    Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +139%
  • MS
    MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue +57%
  • TH
    THE HARFORD DAY SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +68%
  • TA
    TALMUDICAL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARFORD COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +96%
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
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
2
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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3
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education
4
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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5
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

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…

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6
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

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…

Health
7
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

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…

Health
8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

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…

Health
9
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

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…

Health
10
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health
11
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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…

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12
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcdonogh School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership 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

28 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. 28 of the 54 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc: $2,354,500 · HealthUpper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc+2 more: $22,500 · HealthHARFORD JEWISH CENTER TEMPLE ADAS SHALOM: $280,000 · OtherHARFORD JEWISH CENTER TEMPLE AD…ASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE: $225,000 · OtherASSOCIATED JEWISH FEDERATION OF…Individual grant recipient: $162,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOHN CARROLL SCHOOL INC: $150,750 · OtherJOHN CARROLL SCHOOL INCHARLEM LACROSSE - BALTIMORE: $81,000 · OtherHARLEM LACROSSE - BALTIMORETHE TRUSTEES OF THE LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS INC: $60,000 · Other+30 more: $166,810 · Other+30 moreMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $260,480 · EducationMCDONOGH S…THE HARFORD DAY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $99,500 · EducationTHE HARFOR…GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $19,500 · Education+2 more: $5,750 · EducationJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $42,700 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $40,600 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 · International+2 more: $5,000 · InternationalRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $24,000 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HARFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 · PhilanthropyHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$2,377,000Other$1,125,560Education$385,230International$91,900Human Services$24,750Philanthropy$22,100Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $42,700 over 7y, 0.0% 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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% 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
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 Upper Chesapeake Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE HARFORD DAY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE CHAR HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE AREA COUNCIL #220 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARFORD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds POTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL ↗

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 Ma…The Dresher Foundatio…T Rowe Price Program …Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…France-Merrick Founda…Carmen and Victoria D…Community Foundation …Mary Jean and Oliver …The John J Leidy Foun…Edward St John Founda…The Kahlert Foundatio…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Sister States of Maryland Inc: 92% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Services of Centra: 10% of income from government
  • Susquehannock Wildlife Society Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Health Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Ralph and Shirley Klein Foundation Inc 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 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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