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Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family Foundation at a glance

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Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family 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.

$292k
Granted FY2021
28
Grants FY2021
8
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

50% of Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Greater Washington Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $292k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.1MHuman Services$263kEducation$259kReligion$218kEmployment$80kHealth$78kCivil Rights$71kInternational$48kOther$0
02FY2021 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k17 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$5,550
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$61,855
YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON$25,000
REHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY$25,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$25,000
JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES$25,000
GATHER DC$18,000
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY$15,000
GESHER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL$15,000
SEEKING EQUALITY EMPOWERMENT AND COMMUNITY$10,000
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS$10,000
SUNFLOWER BAKERY$10,000
YAD YEHUDA OF GREATER WASHINGTON$6,800
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$6,000
SEASIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY$5,550
AMPLE TABLE FOR EVERYONE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $5k → 17%CARING MATTERS: $1k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $50k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES: $25k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $9k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $5k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%SULAM INC: $1k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%SULAM INC: $1k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $2k → 8%SULAM INC: $1k → 8%SULAM INC: $500 → 8%SULAM INC: $360 → 8%SULAM INC: $360 → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $1k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $15k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $15k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $5k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 43 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2021, 20 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+41%

Still filing today

47%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • GS
    Gesher School Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +4%
  • YO
    YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +44%
  • JF
    JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • PHOENIX HOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -100%
  • BM
    BEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +41%
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.

1
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
2
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…

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4
Jewish Federation of Greater Clifton-Passaic
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5
Jewish Mothers of Metropolitan Seattle
Religion
6
Baltimore Jewish Council Inc

To foster cooperation and understanding within the jewish community, build relationships and mutual understanding with ethnic, racial, and religious groups across maryland, advocate at all levels of government (continued on schedule o)for…

Education
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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10
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
11
Delegation of Jewish American Students (Dojas)
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12
The Greenwich Jewish Study Group Inc

Religious study and services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gather Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Phillips Collection. 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

33 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. 33 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
29/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $921,955 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $85,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCILSEEKING EQUALITY EMPOWERMENT AND COMMUNITY: $71,000 · OtherSEEKING EQUALITY EMPOWERMENT AND CO…JCRC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $60,000 · OtherJCRC OF GREATER WASHINGTONMAKOM: $52,900 · OtherMAKOMJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $36,000 · OtherCHABAD-LUBAVITCH OF MARYLAND INC: $36,000 · OtherSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $35,000 · OtherOHR KODESH CONGREGATION: $25,000 · Other+34 more: $195,818 · Other+34 moreGesher School Inc: $125,000 · EducationGesher Schoo…YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $115,000 · EducationYESHIVA OF G…THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $10,600 · Education+1 more: $3,800 · EducationJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FO…JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $55,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH SO…BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $13,600 · Human ServicesBENDER JC…JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $13,200 · Human ServicesJEWISH CO…+4 more: $10,970 · Human Services+4 moreGATHER INC: $78,000 · ReligionSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $65,000 · EmploymentREHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureIRIS MUSIC PROJECT: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $350 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$936,955Other$696,718Education$254,400Human Services$193,270Religion$78,000Employment$65,000Arts & Culture$26,850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $921,955 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGesher School Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGATHER INC: $78,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $65,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $55,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAMPLE TABLE FOR EVERYONE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetJOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBROADFUTURES INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $13,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $13,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $13,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC: $12,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $10,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSulam Inc: $4,470 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $3,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX HOUSES OF NEW ENGLAND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Association of DC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIRIS MUSIC PROJECT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIKUR CHOLIM OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARINGMATTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA HELP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREHOBOTH BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Gesher School Inc ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds GATHER INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds REHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMPLE TABLE FOR EVERYONE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOAN DANCY AND P A L S INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADFUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TORAH SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Sulam Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALEF BET MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗

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.

The Dennis Berman Fam…The Jewish Federation…T Rowe Price Program …Brian and Dafna Berma…The Annette M Lerner …Aviv Foundation IncThe Gary & Carol Berm…The Robert P and Arle…The Gary and Pennie A…Galena-Yorktown Found…Mayberg Foundation IncThe Morningstar Phila…
The Dennis Berman Family Foundation IncMD23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brian and Dafna Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Aviv Foundation Inc · The Gary & Carol Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Mayberg Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Rehoboth Beach Historical Society: 10% of income from government
  • Rehoboth Beach Film Society: 9% of income from government
  • Jewish Federation of Delaware Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Iris Music Project: 3% of income from government
  • Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Torah School of Greater Washington Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 63 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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