Iowa · Private foundation
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.
- $207k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Dne Caplan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 43 | $203k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $185k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $146k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $131k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $166k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $131k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $44k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $41k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table to Table Food Distribution Network | $43,900 | 9 | 0% |
| Iowa City Hospice Inc | $42,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District | $36,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services | $35,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa | $35,400 | 8 | 3% |
| Iowa Public Radio Inc | $29,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Goodwill Industries of the Heartland | $27,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Iowa Legal Aid Foundation | $26,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Englert Civic Theatre Inc | $24,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Humanities Iowa | $24,100 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($381k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dne Caplan Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Dne Caplan Family Foundation
- How much does Dne Caplan Family Foundation give?
- Dne Caplan Family Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $206,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dne Caplan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Arts & Culture (17%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Dne Caplan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Table to Table Food Distribution Network ($44k), Iowa City Hospice Inc ($42k), The Foundation for the Iowa City Community School District ($37k).
- Does Dne Caplan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dne Caplan Family 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 Dne Caplan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Johnson County, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation.
- Where is Dne Caplan Family Foundation based?
- Dne Caplan Family Foundation is based in IA.
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