· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| MANHATTAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAREER SUPPORT SOLUTIONS INC | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS UNIVERSITY- BILLY RYAN FUND | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER | $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 |
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 (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. 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.
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
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
- 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
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.
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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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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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 90 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 NORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS 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 NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOBOKEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM 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 BROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROZALIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAREERS SUPPORT SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTIN A SOLAK FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Fjc · The Ford Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Ibm International Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 John R & Dorothy D Caples Fund 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.
- 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
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.