· Private foundation
Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $133,334 |
| EMILYS ENTOURAGE | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| MEKETA USA | $25,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $25,000 |
| BALLENISLES CHARITES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $12,000 |
| JEVS HUMAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WESCOE FOUNDATION FOR PULMONARY FIBROSIS | $5,000 |
| EDDIE'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $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 (FY20–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- CFCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $264k · revenue +49%
Feeding America6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +40%- MCMITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- MLMAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLEone grant, 2021 · $36k
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mjhs institute for innovation in palliative care is a not-for-profit organization. the institute is dedicated to promoting access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 106 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds JEVS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLENISLES CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds EDDIES HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WESCOE FOUNDATION FOR PULMONARY FIBROSIS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds ALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN LOWER MERION INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAMSON SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PENN HILLEL ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL MEDICAL FUND CORP ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION 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: Connelly Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Jill and Mark Fishman Foundation · The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation · E Murdoch Family Foundation · Hess Foundation Inc · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Hamilton Family 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 Marcia and Ned Kaplin 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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