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.

Kaphan Foundation

Kaphan Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.6M

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$22MCivil Rights$20MEnvironment$8.9MEducation$8.5MInternational$8.3MHealth$7.7MArts & Culture$6.5MCrime & Legal$2.6MOther$0

02FY2024 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k9 grants · $186k
$50k–250k35 grants · $4.0M
$250k+41 grants · $19M

$248,234

Median grant

States reached

$141M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC	$1,570,977
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS	$698,763
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS	$698,763
FAIRVOTE	$698,763
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$93M · 97 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$93M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+24%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

InternationalCivil RightsEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

F
FAIRVOTE
6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +69%
NI
NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +85%
SI
Sightline Institute
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +40%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY
one grant, 2021 · $479k · revenue -50%
PM
PRO MUJER INC
one grant, 2021 · $285k · revenue +23%
PF
PROTEUS FUND - MORE EQUITABLE DEMOCRACY
one grant, 2021 · $243k

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.

04Its field

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.

Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights

Partnership for Public Service Inc

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…

Employment

World Resources Institute

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…

International

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Open Markets Institute

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.

Education

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment

Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science

Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International

Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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World Coffee Research

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,…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

92/93

Grantees still filing

52/93

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$48,871,881Civil Rights$17,333,042International$13,678,242Arts & Culture$7,293,128Public Benefit$6,154,794Education$5,489,216Environment$3,482,958

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA34.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kaphan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaphan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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How do I get to Kaphan Foundation?

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home