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Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$560k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$560k13%
FY202425$581k8%
FY202324$516k13%
FY202219$431k11%
FY202125$550k4%
FY202027$580k0%
FY201926$585k19%
FY201825$560k12%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$875kHuman Services$485kRecreation & Sports$360kHealth$323kPhilanthropy$230kAnimals$200kFood & Nutrition$150kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Levine Music Inc$265,00090%
Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Inc$225,00096%
Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc$225,00080%
Live It Learn It$225,00083%
Our Sisters School$225,00091%
Meeting Street$210,00070%
New Bedford Women's Center Inc$210,00071%
Sitar Arts Center$200,00081%
Washington School for Girls$175,00071%
Sweet Dream Makers Inc$155,00072%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLevine Music Inc: $265,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetButtonwood Park Zoological Society Inc: $225,000 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetKennedy-Donovan Center Inc: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLive It Learn It: $225,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetOur Sisters School: $225,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMeeting Street: $210,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNew Bedford Women's Center Inc: $210,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSitar Arts Center: $200,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetWashington School for Girls: $175,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSweet Dream Makers Inc: $155,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHope and a Home: $145,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetReach Education Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetArt Museum New Bedford Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetJudge Baker Children's Center: $78,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Inspired Teaching: $75,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetRappahannock Pantry Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetA Wider Circle Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChild and Family Services Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Table Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommons Impact Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHorizons Greater Washington Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Herren Project: $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNational Brain Tumor Society Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nemasket Group Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBuilding Bridges Across the River Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Boating Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Nora Roberts Foundation

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.

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About Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation

How much does Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation give?
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $560,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Levine Music Inc ($265k), Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Inc ($225k), Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc ($225k).
Does Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
Where is Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation based?
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation is based in RI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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