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Robert N Kaplan Family 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.

$110k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Arts & Culture$69kCrime & Legal$31kHealth$17kHuman Services$11kCivil Rights$11kReligion$4kRecreation & Sports$592Other$0
02FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k13 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$35,000
RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$11,800
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$10,750
NORTHWELL HEALTH$10,000
FEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION$10,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$7,500
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$5,000
ASCAP$5,000
THE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS$5,000
STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BOBBY JONES CHIARI FOUNDATION$1,000
SIMONTON CENTER$1,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
SHIR HADASH$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%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.

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 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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
6
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
7
Northwell Health Foundation

Northwell health foundation inc. is dedicated toward helping donors, patients, and leaders link their vision and philanthropic support toward helping the underserved and uninsured, advancing the latest frontiers in medical technology and…

Health
8
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

9
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
11
The Historical Society of the New York Courts

The mission of the society is as follows: - to preserve the legal history of the state of new york; - to foster scholarly understanding and public appreciation of the history of the new york courts and the contribution of the judicial…

Arts & Culture
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fund for Modern Courts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Rye Town Park Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $35,000 · OtherWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $15,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERATHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,800 · OtherTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETYJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERASCAP — $5,000 · OtherASCAP+8 more — $8,342 · Other+8 morePUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATI…FEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Crime & LegalFEDERAL BAR FOUNDATIONTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR MODERN COU…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,750 · Civil RightsNORTHWELL HEALTH INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,000 · HealthBOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Other$85,142Crime & Legal$30,000Civil Rights$10,750Community Improvement$10,000Health$7,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,800 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $10,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF RYE TOWN PARK INC — $592 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

Robert N Kaplan FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert N Kaplan Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Robert N Kaplan Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Greenwich Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robert N Kaplan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert N Kaplan Family 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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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