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Dne Caplan Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$198kArts & Culture$189kFood & Nutrition$124kEducation$83kPhilanthropy$63kCivil Rights$57kCrime & Legal$52kPublic Benefit$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,700
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FREEDOM TO READ FOUNDATION$6,700
ICPLIBRARY FRIENDS FDN$6,700
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL ST$6,700
TABLE TO TABLE$6,700
HOUSES TO HOMES$6,500
IOWA CITY HOSPICE$6,400
IOWA PUBLIC RADIO$6,000
IOWA HILLEL AT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$6,000
IOWA PBS$5,900
THE PILCROW FOUNDATION$5,700
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TABLE TO TABLE: $8k → 15%TABLE TO TABLE: $5k → 15%HOUSES TO HOMES: $7k → 15%HOUSES TO HOMES: $7k → 15%HOUSES TO HOMES: $6k → 15%TABLE TO TABLE: $2k → 15%TABLE TO TABLE: $2k → 15%TABLE TO TABLE: $2k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $8k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $7k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $7k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $6k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $6k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $6k → 15%FRIENDS OF IOWA CITY SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 15%FRIENDS OF IOWA CITY SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 15%IOWA CITY HOSPICE: $2k → 15%CRISIS CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $2k → 15%CRISIS CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $2k → 15%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

MN
IL
NY
OR
IA
OH
NE
MD
DC
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 50 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
5

Total granted

$1.0M
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TT
    TABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +76%
  • IC
    IOWA CITY HOSPICE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +1%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOUSES TO HOMES
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • IH
    IOWA HILLEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • A
    ADL
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Iowa Credit Union Foundation

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…

Unclassified
2
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

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…

Civil Rights
3
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

—
4
Common Good 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.

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5
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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6
Iowa Policy Project

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…

—
7
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
8
State University of Iowa Foundation

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…

Education
9
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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10
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

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…

Community Improvement
11
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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12
Iowa Center Loan Fund

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Legal Aid; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREE LUNCH PROGRAM OF IOWA CITY: $50,600 · OtherFREE LUNCH PROGRAM OF IOWA CITYIOWA FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $40,800 · OtherIOWA FREE MEDICAL CLINICTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $36,800 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $36,100 · OtherUNITED WAY OF JOHNSON WASH CO: $35,900 · OtherSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $35,500 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA: $35,400 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL ST: $33,280 · OtherICPLIBRARY FRIENDS FDN: $31,500 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND: $27,100 · OtherUI CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $24,800 · OtherFreedom to Read Foundation: $24,100 · Other+31 more: $268,000 · Other+31 moreIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $29,400 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBLIC RADI…THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $24,800 · Arts & CultureTHE ENGLERT CIVI…HUMANITIES IOWA: $24,100 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES IOWAPREUCIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $22,800 · Arts & CulturePREUCIL SCHOOL O…RIVERSIDE THEATRE CO: $20,400 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATR…CEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE: $16,600 · Arts & CultureCEDAR RAPIDS OPE…THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL: $13,200 · Arts & CultureTHE PIATIGORSKY …SUMMER OF THE ARTS: $7,900 · Arts & CultureTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $43,900 · Human ServicesTABLE TO TABL…IOWA CITY HOSPICE INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesIOWA CITY HOS…HOUSES INTO HOMES: $19,400 · Human ServicesHOUSES INTO H…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,600 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…The Friends of Iowa City Senior Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Friends o…+1 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesIowa Legal Aid Foundation: $26,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $18,200 · Crime & LegalIowa Legal Aid: $9,600 · Crime & LegalHIAS INC: $22,700 · InternationalCLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS: $13,800 · InternationalCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $27,400 · PhilanthropyTHE PILCROW FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Public Benefit
Other$679,880Arts & Culture$159,200Human Services$130,400Crime & Legal$53,800International$36,500Philanthropy$27,400Public Benefit$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTABLE TO TABLE FOOD DISTRIBUTION NETWORK: $43,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA CITY HOSPICE INC: $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $36,800 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTER HOUSE COMMUNITY SHELTER AND TRANSITION SERVICES: $35,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF IOWA: $35,400 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $29,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $27,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE HEARTLAND: $27,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Legal Aid Foundation: $26,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $24,800 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANITIES IOWA: $24,100 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetFreedom to Read Foundation: $24,100 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetPREUCIL SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $22,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHIAS INC: $22,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PILCROW FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE CO: $20,400 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $19,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSES INTO HOMES: $19,400 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LOUIS SHULMAN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $19,300 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $18,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $17,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS OPERA THEATRE: $16,600 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetEastern Iowa Community Bond Project: $16,400 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetCLUBFOOT SOLUTIONS: $13,800 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION D/B/A PF CLASSICAL: $13,200 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $12,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC: $11,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of Iowa City Senior Center: $10,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetIowa Legal Aid: $9,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY INC: $8,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $8,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBUR OAK LAND TRUST: $7,900 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMER OF THE ARTS: $7,900 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIowa Abortion Access Fund: $7,300 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIOWA CITY UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE: $4,100 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART INC: $2,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHERZL CAMP FOUNDATION: $2,400 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Rpc Inc Charitable Fo…GreenState Credit Uni…Hills Bank Donor Advi…Gary Wicklund Family …Midwestone Bank Found…Greater Cedar Rapids …Reuben & Muriel Savin…Hodge Family Foundati…West Family Foundation
Community Foundation of Johnson CountyIA38.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Dne Caplan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dne Caplan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to Dne Caplan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dne Caplan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 64 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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