· Private foundation
John R & Dorothy D Caples Fund
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY HARVEST | $10,000 |
| BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROS | $6,000 |
| SMILOW FAMILY BREAST HEALTH CENTER | $6,000 |
| NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MANHATTAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| CAREER SUPPORT SOLUTIONS INC | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS UNIVERSITY- BILLY RYAN FUND | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| NORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| RALLYE FOR PANCREATIC CANCER | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN SAIL BOAT RACING FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +21%
- BHBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +99%
CITY HARVEST INC6× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- FCFEERICK CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SSSTANTON SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $7k
- FCFEERICK CENTER FOR SOCAIL JUSTICEone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
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The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
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Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
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.
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The university provides an affordable liberal arts education to a diverse group of students.
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How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 90 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds TOWN COUNTRY K-9 RESQ LTD ↗
- Who funds PET RES Q TOO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds RUTH KEELER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ROZALIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HEWITT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAREERS SUPPORT SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTIN A SOLAK FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John R & Dorothy D Caples Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John R & Dorothy D Caples Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc: 69% of income from government
- Hoboken Historical Museum Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra Inc: 3% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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