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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $3,550,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,850,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $300,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$100,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PFP$100,000
ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA$100,000
FAST FORWARD (PROJECT GIVEDIGNIFIEDWORK)$100,000
ENTRYWAY (FORMERLY SHELTERS TO SHUTTERS)$100,000
GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED$100,000
TEXAS WATER TRADE$100,000
OAKLAND REACH THE$100,000
FOR THE PEOPLE$100,000
AFRICA CENTER THE$100,000
SHAMIRI INSTITUTE$100,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (PROJECT POLARIZATION & EXTREMISM RESEARCH INNOVATION$100,000
CATCHLIGHT$100,000
REACH INSTITUTE RESOURCE FOR ADVANCING CHILDREN'S HEALTH$100,000
CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB$100,000
FORWARD IMPACT (DBA REPRESENT JUSTICE)$100,000
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.

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.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

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
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

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%
+36%

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
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

  • WR
    WORTH RISES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +129%
  • IW
    IMAGINE WORLDWIDE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue ×13
  • TI
    Tarjimly Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • FU
    FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +36%
  • PT
    PRISM THE GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forward Impact; 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.
04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 117 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/89
Grantees still filing
57/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+68 more: $9,250,000 · Other+68 moreEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY: $400,000 · EducationEDUCATIONSUPE…TEACHUNITED: $250,000 · EducationTEACHUNITEDPROPEL AMERICA: $250,000 · EducationPROPEL AMERIC…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIV…The Oakland REACH: $200,000 · EducationThe Oakland R…WITHIN REACH INC: $200,000 · EducationWITHIN REACH …TEACHING LAB: $200,000 · EducationTEACHING LABNORTH 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 ServicesCarinaFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $150,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLI…MERIT AMERICA: $150,000 · Human ServicesMERIT AMERIC…FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $150,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE …TIDES CENTER: $150,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERCULTURAL BROKERS INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Human Services+1 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN J…CITY BUREAU NFP: $300,000 · Arts & CultureCITY BUREA…NEWS REVENUE HUB INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureNEWS REVEN…THE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM…FORWARD IMPACT: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFORWARD IM…CatchLight: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCatchLightJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PE…+1 more: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentCODE2COLLEGE: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT DETROIT: $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 & LegalLONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Crime & LegalOPEN DOOR LEGAL: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $25,000 · Crime & LegalIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $300,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY BUILDERS: $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$9,250,000Education$2,200,000Human Services$2,050,000Arts & Culture$1,700,000Youth Development$1,400,000Crime & Legal$1,125,000Community Improvement$850,000

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 budgetEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY: $400,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetWORTH RISES INC: $300,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $300,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $300,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAMANI GLOBAL WORKS: $300,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTarjimly Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCODE2COLLEGE: $300,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCITY BUREAU NFP: $300,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFOR THE PEOPLE: $300,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $300,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetINTELEHEALTH INC: $300,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetKELSEY: $300,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNEWS REVENUE HUB INC: $300,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCalCef Innovations: $300,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetACCESSOS: $250,000 over 3y, 61% of budgetTEACHUNITED: $250,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA: $250,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetPROPEL AMERICA: $250,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetENTRYWAY: $250,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER: $250,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetReboot Rx Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetDOLLAR FOR: $250,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC: $250,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetFFWD: $250,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMortar Cincinnati: $250,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFreefrom: $250,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTREY ATHLETES: $250,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetTHE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 4y, 3.8% 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 budgetThe Oakland REACH: $200,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPARENTS FOR PEACE: $200,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetRECIDIVIZ INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCarina: $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOPEN SUPPLY HUB INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetWITHIN REACH INC: $200,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetTEACHING LAB: $200,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWATTTIME CORPORATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC: $150,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetMERIT AMERICA: $150,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

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 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

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 Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.

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 117 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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