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Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$37k
Granted FY2019
13
Grants FY2019
12
Organizations funded FY2019
33%
First-time grantees FY2019
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68% of Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $37k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
8
’18
10
’19
6
’20
3
’21
2
’22
2
’23
3
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2019
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 12
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
4
Total assets, FY2019
$982k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 33% of the organizations Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Youth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201912$27k33%
FY201812$41k50%
FY201712$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$198kRecreation & Sports$28kHealth$21kYouth Development$21kArts & Culture$14kCivil Rights$1kFood & Nutrition$500Community Improvement$175

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Riverdale Country School Inc$44,00060%
The Spence School$26,80040%
Northwestern University$20,00030%
The Boys' Club of New York$19,75070%
Les Dames D'Aspen LTD$7,00032%
Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc$6,00020%
The New 42nd Street Inc$4,00030%
The Maidstone Charitable Trust$2,50010%
Yale University$2,5001n/a
Yale University$2,5002n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Riverdale Country School Inc$44,00060%
The Spence School$26,80040%
Northwestern University$20,00030%
The Boys' Club of New York$19,75070%
Les Dames D'Aspen LTD$7,00032%
Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc$6,00020%
The New 42nd Street Inc$4,00030%
The Maidstone Charitable Trust$2,50010%
Yale University$2,5001n/a
Yale University$2,5002n/a
The Donaldson Adoption Institute Inc$1,00010%
Imentor Inc$1,00010%
Yale University$1,0001n/a
Lung Cancer Research Foundation$60020%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$50010%
Partnership for a Drug-Free America$50010%
New York University$50010%
Playworks Education Energized$50010%
Exodus School$25010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRiverdale Country School Inc: $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spence School: $26,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys' Club of New York: $19,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLes Dames D'Aspen LTD: $7,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe New 42nd Street Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maidstone Charitable Trust: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Donaldson Adoption Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetImentor Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLung Cancer Research Foundation: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for a Drug-Free America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlayworks Education Energized: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExodus School: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation

How much does Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation give?
Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $37,250 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (70%), Recreation & Sports (10%), Health (7%).
Who are Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Riverdale Country School Inc ($44k), The Spence School ($27k), Northwestern University ($20k).
Does Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nathalie M 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 Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation based?
Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation is based in NY.

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 31 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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