· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $930k
- $250k+6 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC | $4,612,302 |
| THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE | $4,346,278 |
| Individual grant recipient | $788,010 |
| REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION | $503,998 |
| AMERICAN VICARIOUS | $307,017 |
| MADISON MEDIA FUND | $250,000 |
| THE EDMUND BURKE FOUNDATION | $201,258 |
| THE AMERICAN STRATEGY GROUP | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS | $150,492 |
| 7 LAKES ALLIANCE | $125,784 |
| THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY | $102,014 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN COMPASS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $803k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +132% · 55% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY7× · 2017–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +296% · 84% of their budget
- TAThe American Vicarious Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +49% · 95% of their budget
Funded once
- IAINFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +30%
- EAEDUCATION ACTION GROUP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $425k · revenue -52% · 53% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $258k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 116 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CIVIC ART SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The American Vicarious Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT STRATEGY GROUP INC DBA THE AMERICAN STRATEGY GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Edmund Burke Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION ACTION GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Timanous Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PEORIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Renewing America Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON MEDIA FUND ↗
- Who funds American Moment Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE LAKES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds New York Civil Rights Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS SAVE LIVES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COURAGE IS A HABIT ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Thomas D Klingenstein Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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