· Private foundation
Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k83 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $66,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $58,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $18,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $18,000 |
| FED OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPY | $8,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $7,000 |
| PINK AID | $5,000 |
| THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO | $5,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANIOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE | $4,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $3,600 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY QUICK CENTER | $3,500 |
| CONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
59 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 30 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMUSEUM OF SCIENCE5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +13%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $265k · revenue +34%
WGBH Educational Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- OWOPERATION WALK DENVERone grant, 2022 · $2k
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -65%- TSTEMPLE SHALOM INCone grant, 2020 · $1k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
54 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. 54 of the 104 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 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINK AID INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds MELROSE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- The Food Drive Inc: 1% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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