Kansas · Private foundation
Caplinger Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Caplinger Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Caplinger Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $16k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 10
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Caplinger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $16k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $18k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $18k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $20k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa of Shawnee County Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Horizon Academy | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Capper Foundation | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ksds Assistance Dogs Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Topeka Rescue Mission Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Star Legacy Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evel Knievel Museum Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Trac Kc Corporation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Caplinger 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Caplinger Family Foundation
- How much does Caplinger Family Foundation give?
- Caplinger Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $16,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Caplinger Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Crime & Legal (5%), Education (5%).
- Who are Caplinger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Casa of Shawnee County Inc ($22k), Horizon Academy ($14k), Capper Foundation ($12k).
- Does Caplinger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caplinger Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Caplinger Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Greater Horizons, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Caplinger Family Foundation based?
- Caplinger Family Foundation is based in KS.
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