Alvin a & Roberta T Klein
Spring, TX · EIN 74-6055506. Reported 35 grants totalling $310,000 to 35 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Alvin a & Roberta T Klein did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $7,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $40,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Marine Military Academy | Harlingen, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jones School of Business Rice University | Houston, TX | $18,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Scouting America | Irving, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cornerstone Global Connection Legacy Tutoring | Houston, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | Spring, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Baker Institute for Public Policy | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Child Legacy International | Boerne, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Children's Center for Self Esteem | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Northwest Assistance Ministries | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The John Fairey Garden | Hempstead, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Philmont Scout Ranch | Cimarron, NM | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Montgomery Coalition for Adult Education Literacy | Rockville, MD | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bo's Place | Houston, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Rise School of Houston | Houston, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Central Texas Food Bank | Austin, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gloria Dei Lutheran Church | Houston, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Grace Lutheran Church | Conroe, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Piney Woods Fine Arts Association | Crockett, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Prince of Peace Catholic Community | Houston, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Resurrection Lutheran Church | Spring, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Salvation Army | Houston, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Klein Historical Society | Klein, TX | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Avondale House | Houston, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Clean Water Climb | The Woodlands, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Houston Habitat for Humanity | Americus, GA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Peace Corps | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| San Antonio Community Food Bank | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Texas Public Radio | San Antonio, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rice University | Houston, TX | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Vincent De Paul Catholic Church | Houston, TX | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood Central Texas | Austin, TX | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts USA | Irving, TX | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Philmont Staff Association | Cimarron, NM | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- MD Anderson Cancer Center
TO BE THE PREMIER CANCER CENTER IN THE WORLD, BASED ON THE EXCELLENCE OF OUR PEOPLE, OUR RESEARCH DRIVEN PATIENT CARE AND OUR SCIENCE - Marine Military Academy
TO INSPIRE POSITIVE ACADEMIC, PHYSICAL AND MORAL GROWTH IN EVERY CADET - Jones School of Business Rice University
EQUIP STUDENTS WITH THE SKILLS, INSIGHTS AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO SUCCEED AS THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS - Scouting America
TO SERVE OUR NATION'S YOUTH BY INSTILLING THE VALUES OF THE SCOUT OATH AND LAW - Trinity Lutheran Church
TO INSPIRE IN ALL PERSONS A LOVE FOR CHRIST, A PASSION FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND A CONSCIOUSNESS OF THEIR DUTIES TO GOD AND THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS - Cornerstone Global Connection Legacy Tutoring
TO SERVE AS A MORE PERSONAL AND EFFECTIVE COUNSELING, RESOURCE AND TUTORING CENTER AND TO HELP EVERY CHILD TO DISCOVER THEIR UNIQUE TALENT AND GIFT AT AN EARLY STAGE OF LIFE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 11 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Where its money goes
91% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Alvin a & Roberta T Klein's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 6602 Spring Cypress Road, Spring, TX, 77379. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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