Maryland · Private foundation
Caplan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 80
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Caplan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 66 | $178k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $123k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $118k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $131k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $118k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $151k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc | $120,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The United Way of Central Maryland Inc | $94,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Artists Space Inc | $58,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Beth Am Synagogue | $46,959 | 6 | n/a |
| Mount Vernon Place Conservancy Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fund for Educational Excellence Inc | $16,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Roland Park Country School Inc | $16,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $15,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Middle Grades Partnership | $15,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Caplan Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Caplan Family Foundation
- How much does Caplan Family Foundation give?
- Caplan Family Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $178,404 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 80 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Caplan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (19%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Caplan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc ($121k), The United Way of Central Maryland Inc ($94k), Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust ($60k).
- Does Caplan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caplan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Caplan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore.
- Where is Caplan Family Foundation based?
- Caplan Family Foundation is based in MD.
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