Minnesota · Private foundation
Michael & Donna 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.
- $203k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 83
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 95
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $442k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 79 | $176k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 83 | $162k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 85 | $150k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $133k | 37% |
| FY2017 | 78 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative | $79,793 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $74,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis | $40,230 | 5 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $36,019 | 5 | n/a |
| Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners | $27,270 | 4 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $15,600 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael & Donna 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 Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Target Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota
How this is measured
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About Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation
- How much does Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation give?
- Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $203,439 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 95 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (11%), Housing & Shelter (9%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative ($80k), Greater Twin Cities United Way ($74k), Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis ($40k).
- Does Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael & Donna 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 Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
- Where is Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation based?
- Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation is based in MN.
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