· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK | $6,000 |
| THE SPENCE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB | $3,000 |
| LES DAMES D' ASPEN | $2,500 |
| THE BRICK SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NY | $1,000 |
| IMENTOR | $1,000 |
| THE NEW 42ND STREET | $1,000 |
| PLAYWORKS | $500 |
| THE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 52% of Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 37%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2023 · $44k · revenue +37%
- TSTHE SPENCE SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $27k · revenue +12%
Northwestern University3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN LOWER MANHATTAN HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $12k
- SISELENI INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- AVASPEN VALLEY SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUBone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Les Dames D'Aspen LTD ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW 42ND STREET INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE DONALDSON ADOPTION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Partnership for a Drug-Free America ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nathalie M Kaplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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