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Caplan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$307kEducation$123kPhilanthropy$77kCivil Rights$25kReligion$24kFood & Nutrition$15kEnvironment$12kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k61 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION$40,000
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND$19,500
ARTISTS SPACE$10,000
BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$10,000
BETH AM$7,554
THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM$7,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$6,000
MT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY$5,000
MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP$4,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$3,000
FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$2,750
2-4-1 CARE$2,500
MIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIP$2,500
ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $8k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ON THE MOVE: $500 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%SAVING MOTHERS: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$732k · 92 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
29

Total granted

$732k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+23%

Still filing today

66%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +49%
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +16%
  • BE
    BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CS
    CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -9%
  • F
    FAPE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MP
    MARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +60%
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.

1
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
4
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
9
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; 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.
04the grantee network

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/84
Grantees still filing
66/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $120,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCARTISTS SPACE INC: $58,500 · Arts & CultureARTISTS SPACE INCMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INCCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+31 more: $77,735 · Arts & Culture+31 moreBETH AM SYNAGOGUE: $46,959 · OtherBETH AM SYNAGOGUETHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION: $40,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDER…THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $20,250 · OtherTHE WALTERS ART MUSEUMMIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIP: $15,000 · OtherMIDDLE GRADES PARTNERSHIPACLU: $14,500 · OtherACLUMillennium FIlm Workshop Inc: $12,000 · OtherST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherFAPE: $10,000 · Other+69 more: $100,431 · Other+69 moreBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $60,000 · EducationBALTIMORE EDUCA…FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $16,500 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCAT…ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · EducationROLAND PARK COU…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,200 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS U…BARNARD COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $3,150 · EducationTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $94,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WA…+1 more: $450 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Civil RightsIMMIGRATION EQUALITY: $5,500 · Civil RightsRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $2,250 · EnvironmentWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentTimes Up Inc: $700 · Environment+2 more: $586 · EnvironmentCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $7,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$311,235Other$269,140Education$115,850Philanthropy$94,450Civil Rights$11,500Environment$10,536Food & Nutrition$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $120,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $94,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $60,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetARTISTS SPACE INC: $58,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNT VERNON PLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMillennium FIlm Workshop Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $9,975 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE ALLIANCE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $6,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $5,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRATION EQUALITY: $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,029 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $3,861 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $3,670 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budget2-4-1 Care Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYLBURN ARBORETUM FRIENDS INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE INC: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Humanities Council Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINE RIDGE GIRLS SCHOOL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Millennium FIlm Workshop Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED BLACK CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗

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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…Associated Jewish Cha…Clayton Baker TrustT Rowe Price Program …The Wolman Family Fou…The Joseph Meyerhoff …The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…Ac and Penney Hubbard…The William G Baker J…The Bunting Family Fo…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD28.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Caplan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caplan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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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