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Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$631k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.8MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$366kCommunity Improvement$316kArts & Culture$283kInternational$203kHuman Services$147kCrime & Legal$91kOther$0
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $111k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $343k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $735k
  • $250k+1 grant · $631k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$630,511
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ$136,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$101,671
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH$100,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$100,000
CHABAD OF COLLEGE HILL INC$100,000
GREENLIGHT FUND INC$99,058
BROWN UNIVERSITY$98,329
18 CORP$36,000
CONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUN$36,000
FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC$35,000
THEIR STORIES FOUNDATION$25,000
NEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC$25,000
HARLEM RBI INCORPORATED$25,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$22,784
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $5k → 9%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $10k → 13%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $2k → 11%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $15k → 20%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7k → 6%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $3k → 9%COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $3k → 9%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7k → 6%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25k → 12%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METRO WEST: $10k → 16%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $50k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $35k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $25k → 17%LIFETOWN INC: $2k → 16%THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 17%GLOBAL FUND FOR WIDOWS INC: $1k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWI: $10k → 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 61 repeat orgs$741k to everyone else

61 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
63

Total granted

$4.9M
$592k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

82%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +96% · 62% of their budget
  • TF
    Trustees for Harvard University
    4× · 2017–2023 · $765k · revenue +29%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $313k · revenue +39%

Funded once

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

04Its field

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.

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
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
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
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
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
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 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Academies Network Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

125 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 148 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
121/125
Grantees still filing
61/125
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $1,133,991 · OtherUniversity of Michigan18 CORP: $232,684 · Other18 CORPTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - PENN: $201,055 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA -…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $195,337 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANCHABAD OF COLLEGE HILL INC: $118,000 · Other+61 more: $696,833 · Other+61 moreTrustees for Harvard University: $764,691 · EducationTrustees for Harvard Unive…NEWARK ACADEMY: $237,074 · EducationNEWARK ACADEMYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…PREP FOR PREP: $139,167 · EducationPREP FOR PREPVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC: $130,000 · EducationVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK …NEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC: $75,000 · Education+4 more: $53,500 · EducationUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $312,768 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH A…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $284,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATI…JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $84,337 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID F…CoreGiving Co: $30,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $77,598 · Philanthropy+7 moreGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $397,567 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT F…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVER…+2 more: $25,000 · 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: $20,600 · InternationalLISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $47,500 · HealthThe Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Inc: $20,000 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INC: $15,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $15,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 · HealthBRAINUP INC: $10,106 · HealthLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $10,000 · HealthTHE SUNDARA FUND INC: $10,000 · Health+19 more: $33,715 · HealthFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $26,800 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $14,400 · Human ServicesJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $10,010 · Human ServicesRISEBORO COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $11,300 · Human Services
Other$2,577,900Education$1,549,432Philanthropy$889,303Community Improvement$722,567International$296,049Health$274,321Human Services$267,510

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,133,991 over 4y, 62% of budgetTrustees for Harvard University: $764,691 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $397,567 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $312,768 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ: $284,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY: $237,074 over 3y, 0.2% 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 budgetPREP FOR PREP: $139,167 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC: $130,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $125,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $84,337 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLISA B FISHMAN FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $57,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA: $35,449 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC BUILDERS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCoreGiving Co: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $26,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael Wolk Heart Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROMISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP: $19,795 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetGOOD GRIEF INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC: $14,400 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRAINUP INC: $10,106 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $10,010 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Debra and Kenneth Caplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 148 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home