· Private foundation
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $465k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MA DARTMOUTH | $55,000 |
| KENNEDY DONOVAN CENTER | $50,000 |
| MEETING STREET | $30,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER | $30,000 |
| NATIVITY PREP SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| GLOBAL LEARNING CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| LIVE IT LEARN IT | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| OUR SISTERS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $25,000 |
| SWEET DREAM MAKERS | $25,000 |
| SITAR ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- LMLEVINE MUSIC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +26%
- LILive It Learn It8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +33%
- NBNEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SCSCHWARTZ CENTERMEETING STone grant, 2017 · $30k
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $15k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Maret is a vibrant k-12, co-educational, independent school in washington, dc. we ignite our students' potential and foster their academic, artistic, and athletic talents.
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
The mission of breakthrough montessori public charter school is to provide families in washington, dc with a fully implemented, public montessori program that enables children to develop within themselves the power to shape their lives and…
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meeting Street and the most unlike its peers is Commons Impact Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 44 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 LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Live It Learn It ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Sweet Dream Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND A HOME ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Art Museum New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONS IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
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 Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Nemasket Group Inc — 91% of income from government
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Child and Family Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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.