How much does Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation give?

Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $441,294 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Health (24%), Food & Nutrition (8%).

Who are Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ($264k), Feeding America ($150k), Jevs Foundation ($147k).

Does Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation based?

Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation is based in PA.

Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation

Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$441k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$133k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$913kHealth$619kFood & Nutrition$206kHuman Services$177kInternational$168kEmployment$147kEducation$111kReligion$69kOther$0

02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k45 grants · $86k
$10k–50k8 grants · $172k
$50k–250k2 grants · $183k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA	$133,334
EMILYS ENTOURAGE	$50,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION	$40,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$25,000
MEKETA USA	$25,000
MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION	$20,000
BALLENISLES CHARITES FOUNDATION	$20,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION	$20,000
PHILABUNDANCE	$12,000
JEVS HUMAN SERVICES	$10,000
EDDIE'S HOUSE	$5,000
PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION	$5,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY	$5,000
WESCOE FOUNDATION FOR PULMONARY FIBROSIS	$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 65 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+12%

Still filing today

74%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

CF
Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $264k · revenue +49%
Feeding America
6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +40%
MC
MITZVAH CIRCLE FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +222%

Funded once

ML
MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE
one grant, 2021 · $36k
IM
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
Save The Children Federation Inc
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%

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.

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

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…

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health

Institute for Applied Gerontology

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…

Human Services

International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Highmark Health

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.

Health

University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 106 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/77

Grantees still filing

57/77

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$895,718Health$581,589Other$480,810Food & Nutrition$206,250Employment$147,000Human Services$140,600Education$110,500

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

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.

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.

Connelly FoundationPA17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marcia and Ned Kaplin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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