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Robert N 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.

$324k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$288kArts & Culture$285kEducation$129kCrime & Legal$58kReligion$46kHuman Services$36kSocial Science$30kAnimals$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$70,700
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$35,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$30,000
JCCH$26,000
FEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION$25,000
RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,575
AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE$15,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$12,700
AJC$11,250
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
CARVER CENTER$10,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$10,000
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY$9,000
RYE FREE READING ROOM$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CARVER CENTER: $15k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $10k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $10k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $1k → 9%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $20k → 17%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$815k · 25 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
13

Total granted

$815k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+62%

Still filing today

72%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WH
    WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $136k · revenue +236%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    4× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +39%
  • TR
    THE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -15%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +55%
  • AF
    ASCAP FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +138%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
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
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Free Reading Room and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsCancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%57%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%82%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,723

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $55,075 · OtherTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETYAJC — $41,250 · OtherAJCJCCH — $41,000 · OtherJCCHTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA — $38,700 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERAIONA PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $19,000 · OtherIONA PREPARATORY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $11,000 · OtherRYE FREE READING ROOM — $10,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $13,000 · Other+14 more — $37,720 · Other+14 moreICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $120,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT…Whittier College — $58,000 · EducationWhittier CollegeROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $19,500 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 · Education+4 more — $12,500 · Education+4 moreWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $135,700 · Arts & CultureWHITE HOUSE HISTOR…ASCAP FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $4,750 · Arts & CultureDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $55,000 · HealthDana-Farber Canc…NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH…GREENWICH HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPIT…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $10,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FO…SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC — $9,000 · HealthSILVER HILL HOSP…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,000 · Health+4 more — $6,000 · HealthFEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION — $52,500 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Crime & LegalPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $36,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 · Social Science
Other$266,745Education$220,000Arts & Culture$145,450Health$135,000Crime & Legal$57,500Human Services$56,000Social Science$30,000

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 budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $135,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhittier College — $58,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $55,075 over 4y, 12% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $36,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRYE FREE READING ROOM — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCAP FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY — $4,750 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHorace Mann School — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDANCE CENTER OF WESTCHESTER INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOBBY JONES CHIARI & SYRINGOMYELIA FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRYE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $520 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Robert N Kaplan Famil…John and Jennifer Eck…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundIbm International Fou…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robert N Kaplan Family Foundation · John and Jennifer Eckerson Family Foundation C/O Citrin Cooperman · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robert N Kaplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert N 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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