· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN COMPASS | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
83 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. 83 of the 116 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Center for Renewing America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS SAVE LIVES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COURAGE IS A HABIT ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas D Klingenstein Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas D Klingenstein Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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