How much does Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation give?

Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $1,350,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (52%), Youth Development (10%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United States Fund for Unicef ($755k), City Harvest Inc ($740k), The Food Depot ($730k).

Does Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation, Pnm Tnmp Foundation, The Barker Welfare Foundation.

Where is Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation based?

Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation is based in CO.

Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation

Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation

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.

$1.4M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$4.9MYouth Development$915kHousing & Shelter$873kInternational$755kHuman Services$455kEmployment$298kArts & Culture$270kPublic Safety & Disaster$260kOther$0

02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CITY HARVEST INC	$50,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES	$50,000
CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK	$50,000
SILVER KEY	$50,000
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES	$50,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES	$50,000
CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK	$50,000
THE FOOD DEPOT	$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$50,000
CITY HARVEST	$50,000
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES	$50,000
ST MARTIN DE PRORES SOUP KITCHEN	$50,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES	$50,000
SAN MARTIN DE PORRES SOUP KITCHEN	$50,000
FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.5M · 27 repeat orgs$674k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.5M

$574k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+107%

Still filing today

85%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
8× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +76%
CITY HARVEST INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $740k · revenue +75%
THE FOOD DEPOT
8× · 2017–2024 · $730k · revenue +84%

Funded once

HB
HOMEWARD BOUND OF THE GRAND VALLEY
one grant, 2018 · $100k
MD
MESA DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES STRIVE
one grant, 2018 · $98k
SI
STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +43%

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.

04Its field

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.

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition

San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

—

Food Bank for New York City

Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…

Community Improvement

Montana Food Bank Network Inc

Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…

Food & Nutrition

Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition

Hunger Free Colorado

Hunger free colorado exists to end hunger in colorado.

Food & Nutrition

Arkansas Foodbank

None

Food & Nutrition

Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Albuquerque Indian Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

27/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$3,225,250Human Services$1,975,000Other$1,914,093International$1,015,000Housing & Shelter$745,000Arts & Culture$270,000Youth Development$145,000

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.

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.

Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable FoundationTX17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Barker Welfare Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abram and Ray Kaplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home