Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Caplan Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $25k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Caplan Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $225k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $24k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $22k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $46k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosemont College of the Holy Child Jesus | $204,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Zionist Organization of America | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Overbrook School for the Blind | $3,010 | 3 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Main Line Inc | $2,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Chabad of Penn State Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Merion Square Scout House | $700 | 3 | n/a |
| Bryn Mawr Fire Company | $500 | 3 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($171k), not named here.
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.
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How this is measured
About Caplan Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Caplan Family Charitable Trust give?
- Caplan Family Charitable Trust reported 1 itemized grants totaling $25,000, out of $78,274 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Caplan Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Education (33%), Human Services (19%).
- Who are Caplan Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Rosemont College of the Holy Child Jesus ($204k), Zionist Organization of America ($10k), Overbrook School for the Blind ($3k).
- Does Caplan Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caplan Family Charitable Trust 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 Caplan Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Caplan Family Charitable Trust based?
- Caplan Family Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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