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Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$3.3MRecreation & Sports$1.0MHealth$942kHuman Services$307kHousing & Shelter$283kYouth Development$197kCrime & Legal$160kArts & Culture$138kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $335k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$250,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$125,000
HELPUSADOPTORG$60,000
ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION (ARC)$50,000
E4E RELIEF LLC$50,000
SHERIFFS YOUTH FDN OF LOS ANGELES CNTY$50,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
LOS ANGELES RAMS FOUNDATION$25,000
PARA LOS NINOS$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$25,000
JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE$25,000
CITY OF HOPE (COH)$25,000
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$20,000
SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION$20,000
THE DOMINGUEZ DREAM$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%UNION RESCUE MISSION LOS ANGELES: $133k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $20k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10k → 14%HELPUSADOPTORG: $60k → 17%PARA LOS NINOS: $50k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $50k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $10k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 52 repeat orgs$795k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
42

Total granted

$4.0M
$565k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
0%

Still filing today

88%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • WS
    WINDWARD SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2024 · $370k · revenue +76%
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $250k · revenue +65%
  • UR
    UNION RESCUE MISSION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $233k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UCLA JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -22%
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.

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Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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8
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
9
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
10
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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11
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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12
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cureshank. 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

87 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. 87 of the 109 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/87
Grantees still filing
62/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUCLA FOUNDATION: $679,800 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONWINDWARD SCHOOL: $370,000 · EducationWINDWARD SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $185,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $175,000 · EducationJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $112,000 · Education+5 more: $62,500 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,025,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUCLA JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUDATION: $200,000 · OtherUCLA JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUDATI…UCLA KAPLAN FUND: $76,200 · Other+64 more: $764,400 · Other+64 moreSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $315,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN…SUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION: $135,000 · HealthSUGAR RAY …VENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $56,500 · HealthVENICE FAM…LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · Health+5 more: $61,000 · Health+5 moreUNION RESCUE MISSION: $233,334 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $135,000 · Human ServicesHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $50,000 · Human Services+3 more: $20,200 · Human ServicesSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $67,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC: $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOLLENBECK POLICE BUSINESS COUNCIL: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,000 · Crime & LegalTHE DOMINGUEZ DREAM IN MEMORY OF H FRANK DOMINGUEZ: $90,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,134,300Other$2,065,600Health$617,500Human Services$498,534Youth Development$173,000Crime & Legal$117,000Philanthropy$104,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $679,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINDWARD SCHOOL: $370,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $233,334 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE: $175,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSUGAR RAY LEONARD FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $112,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOMINGUEZ DREAM IN MEMORY OF H FRANK DOMINGUEZ: $90,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $67,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $56,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALISADES AMERICANISM PARADE ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetLOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCATHOLIC BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCureshank: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALISADES WILL ROGERS 5 & 10 K RUN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELP GROUP WEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Panzer FoundationCalifornia Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Ahmanson Foundati…Conrad N Hilton Found…Kennedy Wilson Charit…Ucla FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Smidt FoundationStrauss Foundation TdGreater Horizons
The Panzer FoundationNJ28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    17report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Martha & Irv Kaplan Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 109 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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