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Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$301k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.8MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$366kCommunity Improvement$316kArts & Culture$283kInternational$203kHuman Services$147kCrime & Legal$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
12
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC$25,000
FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC$25,000
VILLAGE ACADEMIES INC$25,000
18 CORP$20,018
CHABAD OF COLLEGE HILL INC$18,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$18,000
PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED$15,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $25k → 11%RISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $10k → 20%ONE HEART BULGARIA CORPORATION: $2k → 6%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7k → 6%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $5k → 9%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $10k → 13%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $15k → 20%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $3k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7k → 6%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25k → 12%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $50k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $25k → 17%THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 17%GLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC: $1k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWI: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
TX
FL

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 52 repeat orgs$663k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
55

Total granted

$3.6M
$592k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+8%

Still filing today

81%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • TF
    Trustees for Harvard University
    4× · 2017–2023 · $765k · revenue +29%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2021–2024 · $501k · revenue +96% · 62% of their budget
  • NA
    NEWARK ACADEMY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $237k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - PENN
    one grant, 2022 · $201k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -21%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +58%

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
7
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Academies Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sundara Fund Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesChristian Youth CampsHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 Schools
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%43%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/116
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,449

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.

04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 130 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/110
Grantees still filing
57/110
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Trustees for Harvard University — $764,691 · EducationTrustees for Harvard UniversityNEWARK ACADEMY — $237,074 · EducationNEWARK ACADEMYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…PREP FOR PREP — $139,167 · EducationPREP FOR PREPVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC — $130,000 · EducationVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INCNEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC — $50,000 · Education+3 more — $28,500 · EducationUniversity of Michigan — $500,658 · OtherUniversity of MichiganTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - PENN — $201,055 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLV…18 CORP — $196,684 · Other18 CORPREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $171,553 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN+54 more — $541,993 · Other+54 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $212,768 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $148,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $84,337 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES A…THE PROMISE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCoreGiving Co — $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $17,818 · PhilanthropyGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $297,567 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGH…BROWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNI…CENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION NYC INC — $17,500 · Community ImprovementPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $180,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $50,000 · InternationalMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA — $35,449 · InternationalGabriel Project Mumbai — $10,000 · International+7 more — $17,000 · InternationalLISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $47,500 · HealthThe Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Inc — $15,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INC — $10,500 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $10,000 · HealthTHE SUNDARA FUND INC — $10,000 · Health+20 more — $41,071 · HealthFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $14,400 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human ServicesRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC — $7,500 · Human Services+4 more — $9,500 · Human Services
Education$1,499,432Other$1,611,943Philanthropy$503,523Community Improvement$415,067International$292,449Health$234,071Human Services$201,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTrustees for Harvard University — $764,691 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $500,658 over 3y, 62% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $297,567 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY — $237,074 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $212,768 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $180,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ — $148,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $139,167 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC — $130,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $84,337 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION — $43,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $37,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA — $35,449 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC BUILDERS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PROMISE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCoreGiving Co — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION NYC INC — $17,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP — $16,015 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $14,400 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HELP GROUP CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gray FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Blackstone Charit…The Hyde and Watson F…American Express Foun…The Stein Family Char…Robin Hood FoundationThe Lazard Charitable…Ashner Family Evergre…March Family Foundati…
Lori & Michael Nash FoundationNJ38.7× affinity16 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 · Gray Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blackstone Charitable Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Stein Family Charitable Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Ashner Family Evergreen Foundation · March Family 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • New Jersey Tutoring Corps Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Mental Health Association of Essex and Morris Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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