New York · Private foundation
Robert N Kaplan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $285k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Robert N Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $285k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $324k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $136k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $136k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $131k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $174k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| White House Historical Association | $206,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $120,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Federal Bar Foundation | $80,500 | 5 | 4% |
| The Rye Historical Society | $65,075 | 5 | 12% |
| Whittier College | $58,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Port Chester Carver Center Inc | $46,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Antitrust Institute Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Greenwich Hospital | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert N Kaplan Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Robert N Kaplan Foundation
- How much does Robert N Kaplan Foundation give?
- Robert N Kaplan Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $285,445 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert N Kaplan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Arts & Culture (31%), Education (14%).
- Who are Robert N Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: White House Historical Association ($206k), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($120k), Federal Bar Foundation ($81k).
- Does Robert N Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert N 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 Robert N Kaplan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Robert N Kaplan Family Foundation, John and Jennifer Eckerson Family Foundation C/O Citrin Cooperman.
- Where is Robert N Kaplan Foundation based?
- Robert N Kaplan Foundation is based in NY.
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