New Jersey · Private foundation
Thomas D Klingenstein Fund
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.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,612,302
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 50
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $77M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Thomas D Klingenstein Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $7.3M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $9.5M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $4.6M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $5.1M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $3.4M | 59% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $5.0M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $4.3M | 31% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $4.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy | $21,476,932 | 8 | 55% |
| National Civic Art Society | $2,419,681 | 7 | 84% |
| The American Vicarious Inc | $1,873,295 | 7 | 95% |
| The Claremont Strategy Group Inc Dba the American Strategy Group | $1,150,000 | 6 | 24% |
| The Maine Heritage Policy Center | $699,044 | 3 | 24% |
| 7 Lakes Alliance Inc | $665,776 | 5 | 10% |
| Edmund Burke Foundation Inc | $552,980 | 5 | 11% |
| Real Clear Foundation | $523,998 | 2 | 4% |
| Informing America Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Education Action Group Foundation | $425,000 | 1 | 53% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas D Klingenstein Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · John & Patricia Klingenstein Fund · The 85 Fund · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · The Randolph Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP
How this is measured
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About Thomas D Klingenstein Fund
- How much does Thomas D Klingenstein Fund give?
- Thomas D Klingenstein Fund reported 32 grants totaling $11,991,533 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thomas D Klingenstein Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (52%), Philanthropy (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Thomas D Klingenstein Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy ($21M), National Civic Art Society ($2.4M), The American Vicarious Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Thomas D Klingenstein Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas D Klingenstein Fund 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 Thomas D Klingenstein Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated.
- Where is Thomas D Klingenstein Fund based?
- Thomas D Klingenstein Fund is based in NJ.
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