Delaware · Private foundation
Debra and Kenneth Caplan 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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $630,511
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 53
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $919k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $1.2M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $317k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $43k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $348k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $371k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $1,133,991 | 4 | 62% |
| Trustees for Harvard University | $764,691 | 4 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $397,567 | 4 | 1% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $312,768 | 4 | 0% |
| Newark Academy | $237,074 | 3 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $195,337 | 5 | n/a |
| Pencils of Promise Incorporated | $180,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Prep for Prep | $139,167 | 4 | 0% |
| Village Academies Network Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Family Legal Care Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 125 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($541k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 110 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation with peer funders
About Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation
- How much does Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation give?
- Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $1,819,197 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (21%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($1.1M), Trustees for Harvard University ($765k), Greenlight Fund Inc ($398k).
- Does Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lori & Michael Nash Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gray Foundation.
- Where is Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation based?
- Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation is based in DE.
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