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Caplin Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k208 grants · $343k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN | $15,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| ALBEMARLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $10,000 |
| STRONG QUALITY BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $7,500 |
| CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE | $7,500 |
| THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $7,500 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $7,500 |
| ROCKY FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| ANTAEUS COMPANY | $6,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $6,000 |
| EAST-WEST PLAYERS INC | $5,000 |
| FOUNTAIN THEATRE | $5,000 |
| THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 42% of Caplin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
307 repeat relationships — 153 still active in FY2025, 154 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- FIFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $245k · revenue +51%
- AAADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $125k · revenue +100%
- FOFRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN4× · 2022–2025 · $108k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BHBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $43k · revenue +118%
- CCCOLONNADE CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +72%
- YIYES I CAN INCone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
Aquila theatre's mission is to create bold reinterpretations of the classics for contemporary audiences. by expanding the canon and diversifying the classics, aquila dares to expand our collective perspectives. aquila theatre is one of the…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
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The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Gonzales Youth Ballet. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
437 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. 437 of the 552 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds TANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLONNADE CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ↗
- Who funds NEW VICTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds INLAND VALLEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds IX ART PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOOL AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds TOM TOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY OC INC ↗
- Who funds LymeLight Foundation ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE 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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Oak Hill Fund · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · The Better Living 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 Caplin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% 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.
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