How much did Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation grant in FY2024?

Education$1.3MCommunity Improvement$426kInternational$280kPhilanthropy$273kHealth$210kHuman Services$196kArts & Culture$59kFood & Nutrition$50kCivil Rights$41kOther$1.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

artchildrensmuseumprephealthessexcancer

2020

—

2021

outscholarshipbreakingjewishresearch

2022

preptrusteesjewish greatergreater metrowestbreast cancer

2023

alzheimers diseasedisease disordersnyctrusteesmetrowestfoodwomen

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $86k
$10k–50k13 grants · $237k
$50k–250k5 grants · $438k
$250k+1 grant · $301k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants

University of Michigan$300,658
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH$101,950
BROWN UNIVERSITY$100,000
GREENLIGHT FUND INC$97,567
TRUSTEES OF NEWARK ACADEMY$87,074
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$51,553
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ$41,000
VILLAGE ACADEMIES INC$25,000
FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC$25,000
NEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC$25,000
18 CORP$20,018
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$18,000
CHABAD OF COLLEGE HILL INC$18,000
PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED$15,000
LISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.8M · 55 repeat orgs$919k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$748k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+58%

Still filing today

73%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

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TRUSTEES FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY
4× · 2017–2023 · $715k · revenue +21%
UO
University of Michigan
3× · 2021–2024 · $501k · revenue +126% · 62% of their budget
GF
GREENLIGHT FUND INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $298k · revenue +215%

Funded once

TO
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - PENN
one grant, 2022 · $201k
TO
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - SCHOO
one grant, 2017 · $150k
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THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.

Health

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

To manage a continuum of senior care business lines.

Health

National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement

Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

To provide quality care through diverse programs designed to promote health and independence within and beyond

Human Services

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Baruch College Fund

The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

Long Island Jewish Medical Center

LIJMC strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality of care for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Health

Network of Jewish Human Service

Advances efforts in best practices, innovation, research and partnerships to strengthen non-profit jewish human service agencies so they can better serve their communities.

Human Services

Jgs Lifecare Corporation

Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the physical, spiritual and emotional health of individuals and families.

Health

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

The foundation raises funds to help the alliance for clinical trials in oncology answer important treatment questions through large-scale clinical trials.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Network for Good and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/104

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,461

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.

05the grantee network

99 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

96/99

Grantees still filing

71/99

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,010,779Education$1,299,432Community Improvement$426,167International$279,949Philanthropy$272,937Health$209,721Human Services$196,400

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.

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.

Lori & Michael Nash FoundationNJ33.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lori & Michael Nash Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gray Foundation · The Stein Family Charitable Foundation · Julie & Frank Cohen Family Foundation · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · The Lazard Charitable 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 organisation Debra and Kenneth Caplan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: University of Michigan.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 382038109 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on University of Michigan, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 62% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

99 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

99 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation?

More from the funding graph