Klem Family Foundation Inc
Armonk, NY · EIN 84-1937657. Reported 231 grants totalling $858,600 to 75 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. 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. Klem Family Foundation Inc 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 $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $50 and the largest $40,010. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Scholarship Fund | Williamstown, MA | $185,050 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Celiac Disease Center | New York, NY | $43,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Food Bank for New York City | New York, NY | $39,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Campaign Against Hunger | Brooklyn, NY | $36,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Teachers College Columbia University | New York, NY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Open Door Sports | Kensington, MD | $27,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Academy of the Holy Cross | Kensington, MD | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smith Fund | Northampton, MA | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Feeding Westchester | Elmsford, NY | $23,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Ocean Cleanup North Pacific Foundation | New York, NY | $21,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| City Harvest | New York, NY | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Planned Parenthood | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Unicef USA | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Unicef USA - Ukraine | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Billion Oyster Project | New York, NY | $19,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Center for Family Justice | Bridgeport, CT | $19,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Connecticut Humane Society | Newington, CT | $19,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Reclam the Bay | Toms River, NJ | $19,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Nature Conservancy | New York, NY | $18,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Save the Children Federation Inc | Fairfield, CT | $16,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| World Wildlife Fund | Washington, DC | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Aspetuck Land Trust | Fairfield, CT | $14,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bridgeport Fallen Firefighters Foundation | Bridgeport, CT | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Windward School | White Plains, NY | $12,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Tcnj Foundation | Ewing, NJ | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Rock Creek Conservancy | Bethesda, MD | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Maryland Youth Ballet | Silver Spring, MD | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Imagination Stage | Bethesda, MD | $6,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| DC Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Forsythe | Oceanville, NJ | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Riverside, CT | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| International Rescue Committee | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hamilton Fund | Clinton, NY | $4,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hartwick Fund | Oneonta, NY | $4,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lafayette College | Easton, PA | $4,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless | Rockville, MD | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| A Wider Circle | Silver Spring, MD | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bowdoin College | Brunswick, ME | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Brooklyn Independent Middle School | Brooklyn, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Ithaca, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maryland Ornithological Society | Baltimore, MD | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Nature Forward | Chevy Chase, MD | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Special Olympics - MD - Montgomery County | Rockville, MD | $3,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Westchester Land Trust | Bedford Hills, NY | $3,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Westmoreland Sanctuary | Mt Kisco, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fallen Firefighters Fund | Canton, OH | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgetown Day School | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Potomac Community Resources | Potomac, MD | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Prospector Theater | Ridgefield, CT | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Wesleyan University | Middletown, CT | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Best Buddies | Miami, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humane Rescue Alliance | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Inwood House Development Corporation | Silver Spring, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences | Loveladies, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Montgomery Parks Foundation | Wheaton, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Child Research Center | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Castle Revolutionary War 250TH Anniversary | Armonk, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Project of Easton | Easton, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Refugee Aid - Southwest Heritage Foundation | Fountain Hills, AZ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ridgefield Golf Course Improvement Fund | Ridgefield, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Special Olympics New Jersey | Lawrenceville, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Gathering Place | Havelock, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United States War Dogs Association | Burlington, NJ | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Armonk Independent Fire Company | Armonk, NY | $800 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Harvard Business School | Boston, MA | $600 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Books Beyond Bars | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of North Castle Library | Armonk, NY | $500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sc GJ0A Youth Soccer | Brooklyn, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Soul Dog Rescue | Fort Lupton, CO | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carnegie Hall | New York, NY | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| North Castle Historical Society | Armonk, NY | $250 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| National Wildlife Federation | Reston, VA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
50 of 75 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 83%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 126 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 42 | $130,260 | $1,250 |
| 2022 | 44 | $181,910 | $3,000 |
| 2023 | 45 | $166,910 | $3,000 |
| 2024 | 47 | $209,510 | $3,000 |
| 2025 | 53 | $170,010 | $2,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
41% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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 $2,500. 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 New York.
- 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 Klem Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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: 43 North Lake Road, Armonk, NY, 10504. 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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