· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+41 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC | $1,570,977 |
| CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS | $698,763 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $698,763 |
| FAIRVOTE | $698,763 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $698,763 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $628,700 |
| NEO -FOUR FREEDOMS FUND | $606,236 |
| SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE | $572,649 |
| GLOBAL PRESS INSTITUTE | $530,860 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION FUND FOR NONPROFIT NEWS (NEWSMATCH) | $526,680 |
| NEO - STATE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND | $525,941 |
| CODE FOR AMERICA | $512,976 |
| NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION | $508,755 |
| NORTHWEST IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECT | $508,456 |
| RAICES | $501,191 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those 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.
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.
97 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 19 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M 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
- FFAIRVOTE6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +69%
- NINORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +85%
- CFCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +99%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $479k · revenue -50%
- PMPRO MUJER INCone grant, 2021 · $285k · revenue +23%
- PFPROTEUS FUND - MORE EQUITABLE DEMOCRACYone grant, 2021 · $243k
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 organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Urbanist Fund. 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 29 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) — 3% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 141 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 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds WORLDREADERORG ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Sightline Institute ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC ↗
- Who funds MapLight ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds VotingWorks ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Global Press Institute ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds CODEORG ↗
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: 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
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 Kaphan 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Year Up 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.
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