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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 it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ASCAP$5,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$5,000
THE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS$5,000
STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE$2,500
PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER$1,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$1,000
SHIR HADASH$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BOBBY JONES CHIARI FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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 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
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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fund for Modern Courts Inc; 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 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. 10 of the 22 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthBOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $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 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 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 budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RYE TOWN PARK INC: $592 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

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

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 Robert N Kaplan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert N Kaplan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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