Illinois · Private foundation
Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 103
- Grants FY2024
- 107
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 107 to 122
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $26M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 92 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 107 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 111 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 113 | $1.8M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 112 | $2.0M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 122 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Ski Team Foundation | $445,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Columbia Riverkeeper | $420,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Chicago Cred Inc | $277,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Louis University | $260,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Embarc Inc | $258,250 | 6 | 2% |
| One Million Degrees | $245,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $240,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Enlace Chicago | $221,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Onegoal | $215,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Central Queens Academy Charter School | $210,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 195 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 186 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Vivo Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Joyce Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Square One Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation with peer funders
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About Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation
- How much does Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation give?
- Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation reported 103 grants totaling $1,578,113 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 107 and 122 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Environment (16%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: United States Ski Team Foundation ($445k), Columbia Riverkeeper ($420k), Chicago Cred Inc ($277k).
- Does Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Robert R McCormick Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
- Where is Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation based?
- Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation is based in IL.
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