· Private foundation
Caplan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $15,000 |
| ARTISTS' SPACE | $12,000 |
| BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,524 |
| ACLU | $7,500 |
| MT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP | $4,000 |
| FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE | $2,750 |
| MIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
| ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW | $2,000 |
| BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART | $2,000 |
| ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +49%
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +16%
- BEBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CSCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -9%
- FFAPEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MPMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
The bronx museum of the arts is a contemporary art museum that connects diverse audiences to the urban experience through its permanent collection, special exhibitions, education programs, and public and community programming and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is B'more Clubhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds Millennium FIlm Workshop Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Clayton Baker Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Wolman Family Foundation Inc · The Joseph Meyerhoff Fund Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · The William G Baker Jr Memorial Fund · The Bunting Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Caplan Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Maryland Humanities Council Inc — 60% of income from government
- Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc — 40% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shriver Hall Concert Series Inc — 9% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.