· Private foundation
Kaplan-Loring Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AT LEWIS FILMS ARDEN TERESA LEWIS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHEATRE WEST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +64%
- TBTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +219%
- DVDAI VERNON FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +72%
Funded once
From The Heart Productionsone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +18%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TFTHEATRE FOR THE NEW CITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
American theater group produces new and classic works primarily by american playwrights with an emphasis on the development of new works and the rediscovery of undeservedly neglected older ones.
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.
The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…
The organization develops and produces plays.
Develop recognition of international theater
To develop and help advance previously un-produced plays of artistic excellence by both established and emerging playwrights.
To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 42 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 THEATRE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAI VERNON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ARTISTS RADIO THEATRE ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLONY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WRITERS GUILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROUP REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health BK 20-04264 ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSICALS INC ↗
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 Kaplan-Loring Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kaplan-Loring Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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