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Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

The DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$2.5MHuman Services$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.8MArts & Culture$1.6MHealth$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.4MInternational$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 45 grants below total $3,550,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,850,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $300,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$100,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PFP$100,000
REBOOT RX$100,000
NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS$100,000
SHAMIRI INSTITUTE$100,000
ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA$100,000
ACCESSOS$100,000
OPEN SUPPLY HUB$100,000
WITHIN REACH INC$100,000
CARINA$100,000
FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH$100,000
TARJIMLY$100,000
FAST FORWARD (PROJECT GIVEDIGNIFIEDWORK)$100,000
AFRICA CENTER THE$100,000
CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB$100,000
TEXAS WATER TRADE$100,000
02The need
03

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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($16M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($2.2M) is mapped below.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CULTURAL BROKERS: $50k → 19%DOLLAR FOR: $100k → 9%CARINA: $100k → 10%DEFINE AMERICAN: $50k → 15%CULTURAL BROKERS: $50k → 19%DOLLAR FOR: $100k → 9%CARINA: $100k → 10%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 15%TARJIMLY: $100k → 8%FREEFROM: $100k → 14%DOLLAR FOR (FORMERLY DOLLAR FOR PORTLAND): $50k → 9%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 15%TARJIMLY: $100k → 8%DEFINE AMERICAN: $50k → 15%TARJIMLY: $100k → 8%FREEFROM: $100k → 14%FATHERS' UPLIFT: $150k → 16%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $100k → 10%FREEFROM: $50k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $100k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 10%SAVELIFE FOUNDATION USA: $50k → 17%MERIT AMERICA: $50k → 14%THE TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($2.2M)

9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$650k · 7 grants
United Kingdom$350k · 4 grants
Netherlands$300k · 3 grants
Kenya$300k · 4 grants
Zimbabwe$300k · 3 grants
Uganda$100k · 2 grants
Colombia$100k · 1 grant
Greece$50k · 1 grant
South Africa$50k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 68 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

68 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
39

Total granted

$15M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+64%

Still filing today

91%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • II
    INTELEHEALTH INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +916%
  • NR
    NEWS REVENUE HUB INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +31%
  • C
    CODE2COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +411%

Funded once

  • FU
    FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +80%
  • PT
    PRISM THE GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • MS
    METRO SOLUTIONS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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2
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
3
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
4
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
8
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
9
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
10
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
11
Finreglab Inc

Finreglab is a d.c.-based research organization working at the intersection of financial innovation and public policy. our mission is to advance technology and data use to help people and small businesses manage their financial lives,…

Science & Tech
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forward Impact and the most unlike its peers is Recidiviz Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%41%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%48%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,476

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.

04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 117 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/89
Grantees still filing
56/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+66 more — $9,250,000 · Other+66 moreEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY — $400,000 · EducationEDUCATIONSUPE…TEACHUNITED — $250,000 · EducationTEACHUNITEDAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIV…PROPEL AMERICA — $250,000 · EducationPROPEL AMERIC…The Oakland REACH — $200,000 · EducationThe Oakland R…TEACHING LAB — $200,000 · EducationTEACHING LABWITHIN REACH INC — $200,000 · EducationWITHIN REACH …NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS — $150,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLIN…Rocket Learning Foundation — $150,000 · EducationRocket Learni…+3 more — $150,000 · Education+3 moreDEFINE AMERICAN INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesDEFINE AMERI…Tarjimly Inc — $300,000 · Human ServicesTarjimly IncDOLLAR FOR — $250,000 · Human ServicesDOLLAR FORFreefrom — $250,000 · Human ServicesFreefromCarina — $200,000 · Human ServicesCarinaTIDES CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $150,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE …FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED — $150,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLI…MERIT AMERICA — $150,000 · Human ServicesMERIT AMERIC…CULTURAL BROKERS INCORPORATED — $100,000 · Human Services+1 more — $50,000 · Human ServicesNEWS REVENUE HUB INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureNEWS REVEN…CITY BUREAU NFP — $300,000 · Arts & CultureCITY BUREA…AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN J…THE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM…FORWARD IMPACT — $200,000 · Arts & CultureFORWARD IM…JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PE…CatchLight — $150,000 · Arts & CultureCatchLight+1 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBRILLIANT DETROIT — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentCODE2COLLEGE — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREY ATHLETES — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIGITAL NEST INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCREATIVE KIDS INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOR THE PEOPLE — $300,000 · Crime & LegalPARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC — $250,000 · Crime & LegalRECIDIVIZ INC — $200,000 · Crime & LegalDetroit Justice Center — $150,000 · Crime & LegalJOIN FREEWORLD INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalOPEN DOOR LEGAL — $50,000 · Crime & LegalLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $25,000 · Crime & LegalAMANI GLOBAL WORKS — $300,000 · HealthReboot Rx Inc — $250,000 · HealthMETRO SOLUTIONS INC — $100,000 · HealthSHAMIRI INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 · HealthACTIVATING CHANGE INC — $50,000 · HealthNOORA HEALTH — $50,000 · Health
Other$9,250,000Education$2,200,000Human Services$2,050,000Arts & Culture$1,700,000Youth Development$1,400,000Crime & Legal$1,125,000Health$850,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY — $400,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetFOR THE PEOPLE — $300,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetDEFINE AMERICAN INC — $300,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetINTELEHEALTH INC — $300,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetAMANI GLOBAL WORKS — $300,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $300,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNEWS REVENUE HUB INC — $300,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE — $300,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORTH RISES INC — $300,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE — $300,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCalCef Innovations — $300,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKELSEY — $300,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCITY BUREAU NFP — $300,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTarjimly Inc — $300,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER — $250,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTEACHUNITED — $250,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetReboot Rx Inc — $250,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA — $250,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC — $250,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPROPEL AMERICA — $250,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTREY ATHLETES — $250,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetACCESSOS — $250,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetDOLLAR FOR — $250,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMortar Cincinnati — $250,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetENTRYWAY — $250,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFFWD — $250,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC — $250,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetFreefrom — $250,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRECIDIVIZ INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPARENTS FOR PEACE — $200,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe Oakland REACH — $200,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTEACHING LAB — $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWATTTIME CORPORATION — $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWITHIN REACH INC — $200,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetFORWARD IMPACT — $200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE REACH INSTITUTE RESOURCE FOR ADVANCING CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCarina — $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOPEN SUPPLY HUB INC — $200,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB — $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS — $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationFfwdMulago FoundationRippleworks IncThe Ford FoundationThe Elevate Prize Fou…New Venture FundThe Patrick J McGover…New Profit IncStand Together Founda…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA39.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Ffwd · Mulago Foundation · Rippleworks Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Elevate Prize Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · New Profit Inc · Stand Together 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 Draper Richards Kaplan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Parents for Peace — 41% of income from government
  • Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
  • Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
19report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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