New York · Private foundation
Robert S 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $79M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Robert S Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 33 | $2.6M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $2.8M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $2.8M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $1.8M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | $4,225,000 | 5 | 8% |
| St Mark's School of Texas | $1,394,900 | 2 | 1% |
| Project Als Inc | $790,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Alcuin School | $400,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Commit2dallas | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Holdsworth Center | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert S Kaplan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Susser Family Foundation · The Hersh Foundation · Dalio Family Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About Robert S Kaplan Foundation
- How much does Robert S Kaplan Foundation give?
- Robert S Kaplan Foundation reported 42 itemized grants totaling $2,645,076, out of $2,970,076 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Robert S Kaplan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Education (25%), Social Science (10%).
- Who are Robert S Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation ($4.2M), St Mark's School of Texas ($1.4M), Project Als Inc ($791k).
- Does Robert S Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert S 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 S Kaplan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is Robert S Kaplan Foundation based?
- Robert S Kaplan Foundation is based in NY.
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