· Private foundation
Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $596k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT | $160,000 |
| BARGEMUSIC LTD | $100,000 |
| BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC | $60,000 |
| KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER | $55,910 |
| THE FILOMEN M D'AGOSTINO GREENBERG | $55,000 |
| BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $55,000 |
| HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $55,000 |
| MYRIAD USA VERBIER FESTIVAL | $55,000 |
| ISRAELI CHAMBER PROJECT | $35,000 |
| 92ND STREET Y | $30,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $25,000 |
| THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC | $20,991 |
| 171 CEDAR ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SOSOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT5× · 2020–2024 · $477k · revenue +31%
- BSBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC5× · 2020–2024 · $393k · revenue +52%
- TBTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC5× · 2020–2024 · $285k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- HSHARLEM SCHOOL OF ARTSone grant, 2020 · $60k
- TFTHE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +148%
- O1OPUS 118one grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
The mission of music conservatory of westchester is to provide the extraordinary benefits of music to all in our community. we believe in the inherent power of music to provide personal enrichment, creative expression, lifelong learning,…
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.
The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.
Jeunes Virtuoses de New York" (JVNY) is an ensemble of exceptionally accomplished young musicians who perform on both sides of the Atlantic both as a string camerata, and in various chamber music configurations. Our mission is to transform…
Teaching of musical instruments, and providing access to music events/education to the community. Free public concerts in the Brooklyn community and throughout NYC.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement and the most unlike its peers is The Philanthropy Roundtable. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds BLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BARGEMUSIC LTD ↗
- Who funds HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI CHAMBER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds OPUS 118 HARLEM SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ONE SEVENTY ONE CEDAR INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · D'Addario Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000 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.
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.