New Jersey · Private foundation
Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $875k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 50
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $600k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $558k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $365k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $565k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $767k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $1.3M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $693k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania State University | $1,025,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Windward School | $370,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Saint John's Health Center Foundation | $315,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Oregon Foundation | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Union Rescue Mission | $233,334 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $185,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Graduate Student Initiative | $175,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation | $135,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Para Los Ninos | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 82 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($430k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Panzer Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation · Ucla Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Smidt Foundation · Strauss Foundation Td · Greater Horizons
How this is measured
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About Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation
- How much does Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation give?
- Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $875,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 50 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Pennsylvania State University ($1.0M), Windward School ($370k), Saint John's Health Center Foundation ($315k).
- Does Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Panzer Foundation, California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation based?
- Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation is based in NJ.
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