How much does Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation give?

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation reported 45 itemized grants totaling $3,550,000, out of $3,850,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (13%), Human Services (13%), Crime & Legal (10%).

Who are Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Educationsuperhighway ($400k), Worth Rises Inc ($300k), Imagine Worldwide ($300k).

Does Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc, Tides Foundation.

Where is Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation based?

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

The DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. We believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society's most complex problems, can make the world a better place.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 45
Itemized grants FY2024: 43
Organizations funded FY2023: 37%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $3.5M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 43 to 52; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 16
Total assets, FY2024: $41M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	44	$3.5M	20%
FY2023	43	$3.6M	37%
FY2022	46	$3.4M	43%
FY2021	46	$3.5M	41%
FY2020	52	$4.3M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Educationsuperhighway	$400,000	5	6%
Worth Rises Inc	$300,000	4	5%
Imagine Worldwide	$300,000	4	2%
Define American Inc	$300,000	4	2%
Amani Global Works	$300,000	3	11%
Generation You Employed Inc	$300,000	3	0%
Tarjimly Inc	$300,000	3	11%
American Journalism Project Inc	$300,000	4	0%
Code2college	$300,000	3	13%
City Bureau Nfp	$300,000	4	3%

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All grantees of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Educationsuperhighway	$400,000	5	6%
Worth Rises Inc	$300,000	4	5%
Imagine Worldwide	$300,000	4	2%
Define American Inc	$300,000	4	2%
Amani Global Works	$300,000	3	11%
Generation You Employed Inc	$300,000	3	0%
Tarjimly Inc	$300,000	3	11%
American Journalism Project Inc	$300,000	4	0%
Code2college	$300,000	3	13%
City Bureau Nfp	$300,000	4	3%
For the People	$300,000	3	4%
Brilliant Detroit	$300,000	4	2%
Intelehealth Inc	$300,000	4	15%
Kelsey	$300,000	3	4%
News Revenue Hub Inc	$300,000	4	3%
CalCef Innovations	$300,000	3	2%
Accessos	$250,000	3	61%
Teachunited	$250,000	3	9%
Accelerator for America	$250,000	3	10%
Propel America	$250,000	3	3%
Entryway	$250,000	3	4%
Center on Rural Innovation Inc	$250,000	3	5%
The Museum for African Art D/B/A the Africa Center	$250,000	3	6%
Reboot Rx Inc	$250,000	3	19%
Dollar For	$250,000	3	8%
Partners for Justice Inc	$250,000	3	9%
Ffwd	$250,000	3	1%
Mortar Cincinnati	$250,000	3	5%
American University	$250,000	3	0%
Freefrom	$250,000	3	4%
Just Capital Foundation Inc	$250,000	3	1%
Trey Athletes	$250,000	3	36%
The Well Community Development Corporation	$250,000	4	4%
Forward Impact	$200,000	2	3%
The Reach Institute Resource for Advancing Children's Health	$200,000	2	4%
The Oakland REACH	$200,000	3	3%
Child Poverty Action Lab	$200,000	2	1%
Parents for Peace	$200,000	2	8%
Recidiviz Inc	$200,000	2	1%
Carina	$200,000	2	2%
Open Supply Hub Inc	$200,000	2	4%
Within Reach Inc	$200,000	2	75%
Teaching Lab	$200,000	2	2%
Healthy Learners Inc	$200,000	2	6%
Watttime Corporation	$200,000	2	2%
Digital Nest Inc	$150,000	2	5%
Fathers Uplift Incorporated	$150,000	1	10%
Merit America	$150,000	2	2%
Texas Water Trade	$150,000	2	4%
North Carolina Education Corps	$150,000	2	2%
CatchLight	$150,000	2	3%
Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc	$150,000	3	0%
Detroit Justice Center	$150,000	2	2%
Coalfield Development Corporation	$150,000	2	2%
First Place for Youth	$150,000	2	0%
Rocket Learning Foundation	$150,000	2	6%
Re-Plate Inc DBA Replate	$150,000	2	5%
Common Goal USA Inc	$150,000	2	13%
Housing Connector	$150,000	2	2%
Creative Kids Inc	$100,000	2	7%
Recidiviz Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
El Paso Diabetes Association Inc	$100,000	2	5%
Shamiri Institute Inc	$100,000	1	7%
Food Forward Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Metro Solutions Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Join Freeworld Inc	$100,000	2	1%
Public Rights Project	$100,000	1	1%
Voteorg	$100,000	1	1%
Cultural Brokers Incorporated	$100,000	2	4%
The Digdeep Right to Water Project	$50,000	1	0%
Community Builders	$50,000	1	5%
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Lone Star Justice Alliance	$50,000	1	2%
Activating Change Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Project on Predatory Student Lending	$50,000	1	1%
Cambiar Education	$50,000	1	0%
Solarapp Foundation	$50,000	1	3%
Savelife Foundation USA	$50,000	1	11%
Greenwave Organization Corp	$50,000	1	3%
Ocean Outcomes	$50,000	1	3%
Absolute Return for Kids US Inc	$50,000	1	36%
Kheyti Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Newark Alliance INC	$50,000	1	1%
Ameelio Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Open Door Legal	$50,000	1	1%
Noora Health	$50,000	1	2%
Unc Health Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Council on Criminal Justice Inc	$25,000	1	0%

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 86.

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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.

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

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.

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About Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

How much does Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation give?: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation reported 45 itemized grants totaling $3,550,000, out of $3,850,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (13%), Human Services (13%), Crime & Legal (10%).
Who are Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Educationsuperhighway ($400k), Worth Rises Inc ($300k), Imagine Worldwide ($300k).
Does Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc, Tides Foundation.
Where is Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation based?: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is based in CA.