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Dne Caplan Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA FREE MEDICAL DENTAL CLINIC | $8,500 |
| FREE LUNCH PROGRAM OF IOWA CITY | $8,000 |
| IOWA ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $7,300 |
| COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES | $6,900 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION IOWA | $6,800 |
| ICPLIBRARY FRIENDS FDN | $6,700 |
| TABLE TO TABLE | $6,700 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL ST | $6,700 |
| FREEDOM TO READ FOUNDATION | $6,700 |
| HOUSES TO HOMES | $6,500 |
| IOWA CITY HOSPICE | $6,400 |
| IOWA HILLEL AT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $6,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $6,000 |
| IOWA PBS | $5,900 |
| THE PILCROW FOUNDATION | $5,700 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TTTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +76%
- ICIOWA CITY HOSPICE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +1%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- HTHOUSES TO HOMESone grant, 2022 · $6k
- IHIOWA HILLEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $4k
- AADLone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The mission of the iowa center loan fund cdfi is to reduce proverty and inequality and further community development by providing access to capital to iowans starting or expanding a business who do not have access to traditional forms of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid and the most unlike its peers is Preucil School of Music. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 64 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES IOWA ↗
- Who funds Freedom to Read Foundation ↗
- Who funds PREUCIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PILCROW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOUSES INTO HOMES ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Eastern Iowa Community Bond Project ↗
- Who funds CLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds The Friends of Iowa City Senior Center ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Johnson County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · Gary Wicklund Family Foundation · Midwestone Bank Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Reuben & Muriel Savin Fdn · Hodge Family Foundation · West 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 Dne Caplan Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
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.
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