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Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
103
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$4.3MEnvironment$1.8MCommunity Improvement$843kPhilanthropy$762kEmployment$726kRecreation & Sports$663kYouth Development$597kArts & Culture$555kOther$0
02FY2024 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Taos Art Museum$150,000
Natural Resources Defense Council$50,000
Action for the Climate Emergency$50,000
Vermont Public Interest Research & Education Fund$50,000
Resources Legacy Fund$50,000
New York University$50,000
National Louis University$45,000
Small Moves Foundation$44,000
Network for College Success$42,000
One Million Degrees$40,000
Burke Mountain Academy$40,000
Embarc$40,000
NewRoot Learning Institute (formerly Umoja)$40,000
Loyola University Chicago$40,000
Chicago CRED$36,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Afiya Center: $3k → 14%The Afiya Center: $2k → 14%The Afiya Center: $1k → 14%Nuestra Alianza de Willits: $500 → 18%Nuestra Alianza de Willits: $500 → 18%Nuestra Alianza de Willits: $500 → 18%Proyecto Pastoral: $30k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $30k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $30k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $30k → 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $30k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $1k → 14%Abraham in Motion Inc: $1k → 17%Greenwood Project: $21k → 14%Greenwood Project: $21k → 14%Greenwood Project: $21k → 14%Greenwood Project: $1k → 14%A Better Chicago: $25k → 14%A Better Chicago: $15k → 14%Center on Halsted: $500 → 14%Greenwood Project: $21k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
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IL
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.1M · 129 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

129 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
92

Total granted

$9.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $445k · revenue +88%
  • CR
    Columbia Riverkeeper
    6× · 2019–2024 · $420k · revenue +57%
  • NL
    National Louis University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • TJ
    The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $124k · revenue +52%
  • UO
    University of Illinois at Chicago
    one grant, 2019 · $65k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
9
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education and the most unlike its peers is Small Moves Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…School District FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsSchool Parent OrganizationsDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Women & Girls Leadership De…Animal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Health Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%2/202
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,363

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.

04the grantee network

198 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. 198 of the 244 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
195/198
Grantees still filing
144/198
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

National Louis University — $260,000 · EducationNational Louis UniversityONE MILLION DEGREES — $245,500 · EducationONE MILLION DEGREESLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $240,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOYEAR UP INC — $210,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCCENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $210,000 · EducationCENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SC…NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $201,000 · EducationNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATOR…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $185,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC — $180,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $150,000 · EducationCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY — $146,000 · EducationThe Partnership for College Completion — $130,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $124,000 · EducationChicago State Foundation — $120,000 · EducationWilliams College — $115,000 · Education+31 more — $894,000 · Education+31 moreUSC Neighborhood Academic Initiative — $230,000 · OtherUSC Neighborhood Academic InitiativeCollege Track Los Angeles — $185,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $180,000 · OtherNetwork for College Success — $170,000 · OtherNewRoot Learning Institute (formerly Umoja) — $160,000 · OtherTaos Art Museum — $150,000 · OtherChicago Cred Inc — $277,000 · OtherChicago Cred IncProyecto Pastoral — $150,000 · Other+90 more — $2,372,465 · Other+90 moreColumbia Riverkeeper — $420,000 · EnvironmentColumbia Riverke…GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $210,000 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCAT…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $187,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCE…LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $120,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA BUCKET…COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $120,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR …Elevate Energy — $105,000 · EnvironmentElevate EnergyCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · Environment+20 more — $428,000 · Environment+20 moreEMBARC INC — $258,250 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL — $215,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC — $185,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC — $193,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $187,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropySmall Moves Foundation — $44,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community Trust — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $52,485 · PhilanthropyEnlace Chicago — $221,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $202,000 · Community ImprovementRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $125,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT VOTER FUND — $50,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $20,500 · Community ImprovementUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $445,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $13,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$3,410,500Other$3,874,465Environment$1,655,000Youth Development$674,750Philanthropy$666,485Community Improvement$618,500Recreation & Sports$478,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $445,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper — $420,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetChicago Cred Inc — $277,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNational Louis University — $260,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMBARC INC — $258,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES — $245,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $240,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEnlace Chicago — $221,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetONEGOAL — $215,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $210,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $210,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $210,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $202,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $201,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC — $193,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $187,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $187,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $185,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $185,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC — $180,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $150,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTaos Art Museum — $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY — $146,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetThe Partnership for College Completion — $130,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS — $127,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $125,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $124,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $120,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetChicago State Foundation — $120,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWilliams College — $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElevate Energy — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO — $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREENWOOD PROJECT — $85,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN — $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP — $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC — $77,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $64,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $60,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY — $57,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget
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 United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Cred Inc ↗
  • Who funds National Louis University ↗
  • Who funds EMBARC INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Taos Art Museum ↗
  • Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY ↗
  • Who funds The Partnership for College Completion ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds Chicago State Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …Robert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…Circle of Service Fou…John D and Catherine …Vivo FoundationThe Chicago Community…The Joyce FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Square One FoundationLloyd a Fry Foundation
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL44.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mayer and Morris Kaplan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mayer and Morris 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 244 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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