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Michael & Donna Kaplan Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
81
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$140kHousing & Shelter$107kPhilanthropy$84kFood & Nutrition$79kEnvironment$64kInternational$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kHealth$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k77 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$442k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaboration$25,000
The Nature Conservancy$25,000
Greater Twin Cities United Way$16,000
Jewish Family And Children's Services$10,800
Salvation Army$9,377
Second Harvest Heartland$8,000
Anti-Defamation League$8,000
Interfaith Outreach Community Partners$6,325
Minnesota Zoo Foundation$6,120
Food Group$6,000
NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center$5,600
Community Emergency Assistance Programs (CEAP)$4,725
UNICEF$4,000
American Red Cross$4,000
St Louis Park Emergency Program (STEP)$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Canvas Health: $500 → 6%Wounded Warriors Project: $500 → 14%Canvas Health: $400 → 6%Wounded Warriors Project: $500 → 14%Canvas Health: $400 → 6%Canvas Health: $400 → 6%Greater Mpls Crisis Nursery: $800 → 11%Greater Mpls Crisis Nursery: $800 → 11%Greater Mpls Crisis Nursery: $800 → 11%Greater Mpls Crisis Nursery: $800 → 11%American Red Cross: $8k → 14%American Red Cross: $4k → 14%American Red Cross: $4k → 14%American Red Cross: $4k → 14%Jewish Family Service of St Paul: $200 → 14%Jewish Family Service of St Paul: $200 → 14%Community Emergency Assistance Programs (CEAP): $5k → 11%Community Emergency Assistance Programs (CEAP): $4k → 11%Community Emergency Assistance Programs: $2k → 11%Community Emergency Assistance Programs: $1k → 11%Sharing and Caring Hands: $900 → 11%Freedom Place: $200 → 14%Sharing and Caring Hands: $900 → 11%Sharing and Caring Hands: $800 → 11%Sharing and Caring Hands: $800 → 11%Bridge For Youth: $400 → 11%Bridge For Youth: $400 → 11%Bridge For Youth: $400 → 11%Bridge For Youth: $400 → 11%Community Emergency Services: $1k → 11%Community Emergency Services: $1k → 11%Jewish Family And Children's Services: $11k → 11%Jewish Family And Children's Services: $11k → 11%Jewish Family And Children's Services: $8k → 11%Jewish Family And Children's Services: $7k → 11%Prism: $1k → 11%Prism: $500 → 11%Prism: $483 → 11%Prism: $400 → 11%Phyllis Wheatley Community Ctr Families Moving Forward: $643 → 11%Fraser: $200 → 11%YouthLink: $1k → 11%YouthLink: $800 → 11%YouthLink: $800 → 11%YouthLink: $800 → 11%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
MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$650k · 94 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

94 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
30

Total granted

$650k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+5%

Still filing today

69%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BI
    BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +51%
  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +32%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • BI
    Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaboration
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • TC
    The Conservation Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • TI
    Temple Israel - Food Drive
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

1
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
6
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
11
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
12
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 136 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
60/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $47,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSALVATION ARMY: $36,019 · OtherSALVATION ARMYINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $27,270 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS+97 more: $228,690 · Other+97 moreJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $40,230 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY A…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC: $11,866 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERG…SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $4,200 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $4,100 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $4,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINK: $3,948 · Human Services+10 more: $14,036 · Human Services+10 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $74,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN…MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS …BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $79,793 · Community ImprovementBEACON INTER…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $19,000 · InternationalUNITED ST…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $12,600 · InternationalCOOPERATI…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …Save The Children Federation Inc: $8,000 · InternationalSave The …FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $4,000 · InternationalFEED MY S…WORLD VISION INC: $2,000 · International+4 more: $3,450 · International+4 moreSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $22,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $15,600 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,400 · Food & NutritionMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,600 · Food & NutritionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $27,000 · Civil RightsPACER CENTER INC: $4,000 · Civil Rights
Other$338,979Human Services$102,380Philanthropy$84,000Community Improvement$79,793International$59,050Food & Nutrition$41,600Civil Rights$31,000

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 budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $79,793 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $74,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $40,230 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $27,270 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $15,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $12,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC: $11,866 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYouthprise: $10,204 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNECHAMA - JEWISH RESPONSE TO DISASTER: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $7,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $6,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $4,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $3,948 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $2,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER: $2,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $2,383 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,120 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHOLOM COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANVAS HEALTH INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $1,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NECHAMA - JEWISH RESPONSE TO DISASTER ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
  • Who funds NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗

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 Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Pohlad Family Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Xcel Energy FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Target FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Hunger Solutions Minn…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN41.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Michael & Donna 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 136 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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