· Private foundation
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.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2021
- Under $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $61,855 |
| YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| REHOBOTH BEACH FILM SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES | $25,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| GATHER DC | $18,000 |
| GESHER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS | $10,000 |
| SUNFLOWER BAKERY | $10,000 |
| SEEKING EQUALITY EMPOWERMENT AND COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| YAD YEHUDA OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $6,800 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $6,000 |
| SEASIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY | $5,550 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING | $5,000 |
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, $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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- GSGesher School Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +4%
- YOYESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC5× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +44%
- JFJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC3× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
PHOENIX HOUSES OF NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -100%- BMBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +41%
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.
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…
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…
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
Religious study and services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gather Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. 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 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 63 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Leslie & Samuel Kaplan Family 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.
- 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
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.