· Private foundation
Caplinger Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPPER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CASA OF SHAWNEE COUNTY | $3,000 |
| SENT TOPEKA INC | $2,000 |
| HORIZON ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC | $2,000 |
| STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -92% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCASA OF SHAWNEE COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +8%
- HAHORIZON ACADEMY6× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +65%
- CFCAPPER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MID AMERone grant, 2019 · $2k
- CICOMMUNITY IN SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $2k
- EKEVEL KNIEVEL MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $750 · revenue -92%
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.
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.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Empowering people with developmental disabilities through gainful employment and community inclusion.
Ken's krew provides job placement, training, and support for individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities in competitive employment.
Service enterprises, inc. of minnesota through effective partnerships, provides quality vocational training, job opportunities, habilitative and other services to individuals with disabilities to promote their independence and active…
To educate, mentor & support youth with disabilities to be contributingmembers of their community.
Zealously advocating for the disability rights of kansans to protect their full participation as citizens.
Ability kc industries gives the individuals we serve the support, structure, and opportunity to engage in their communities, develop occupational skills and navigate the continuum of care for their individualized needs.
The kansas city autism training center is committed to helping people on the autism spectrum fulfill their potential through ethical, evidence-based treatment, education, and training.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Kidsmart empowers kids in need to succeed in school by providing free essential tools for learning.
Stone belt believes in the uniqueness, worth, and right to self-determination of every individual. therefore, it is its mission, in partnership with the community to prepare, empower and support persons with disabilities and their families…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SHAWNEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVEL KNIEVEL MUSEUM 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Caplinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caplinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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