Washington · Private foundation
Kaphan Foundation
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.
- $23M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2024
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $248,234
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,570,977
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 89
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $141M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Kaphan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 83 | $22M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $22M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $22M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $18M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $10M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $6.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $3,367,094 | 6 | 5% |
| Fairvote | $3,288,134 | 6 | 13% |
| Worldreaderorg | $2,905,682 | 4 | 13% |
| Northwest Immigrant Rights Project | $2,722,155 | 6 | 4% |
| Sightline Institute | $2,719,823 | 6 | 23% |
| Democracy Now Productions Inc | $2,513,102 | 6 | 5% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $2,477,035 | 4 | 1% |
| Code for America Labs Inc | $2,395,533 | 6 | 2% |
| MapLight | $2,067,530 | 6 | 24% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services | $1,936,816 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($30M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kaphan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Ridge Road Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Kaphan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Kaphan Foundation
- How much does Kaphan Foundation give?
- Kaphan Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $22,932,455 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 89 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Kaphan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (22%), Civil Rights (20%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Kaphan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Center for Constitutional Rights ($3.4M), Fairvote ($3.3M), Worldreaderorg ($2.9M).
- Does Kaphan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kaphan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kaphan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Gates Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Kaphan Foundation based?
- Kaphan Foundation is based in WA.
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