· Private foundation
Jerome a & Deena L Kaplan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JSSA-MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CHARLES E SMITH LIFE COMMUNITIES | $40,000 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $30,000 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLIS | $20,000 |
| HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT | $20,000 |
| BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $15,000 |
| YACHAD | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CLEAN WATER FUND | $15,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| FONKOZE USA | $10,000 |
| OPEN CITY ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
66 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- HHHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC6× · 2020–2025 · $279k · revenue +1%
- FFFOOD & FRIENDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +73%
- CWCLEAN WATER FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MHMEDSTAR HEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +54%
- PPPMDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…
The mission of Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation is to advance scientific knowledge in the fields of reproductive biology and women's health; translate this knowledge into improved health for women and infants; train current…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open City Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Jubilee Jumpstart. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 81 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 HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds OPEN CITY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FONKOZE USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YACHAD INC ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Seaport Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Jumpstart ↗
- Who funds Young Playwrights Theater ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds James Renwick Alliance ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds National Vulvodynia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Bubes Family Foundation Inc · The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund Inc
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 Jerome a & Deena L Kaplan Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Housing Initiative Partnership Inc — 21% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc — 0% of income from government
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.