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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Philanthropy$4.7MEducation$4.3MSocial Science$1.8MHealth$842kArts & Culture$775kEmployment$410kReligion$303kCommunity Improvement$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $2,570,076 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,895,076 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $325,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $526k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $675k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation$1,000,000
St. Mark’s School of Texas$344,900
Commit2dallas$200,000
Project ALS$175,000
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas$100,000
George W. Bush Presidential Center$50,000
Alcuin School$50,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas$50,000
St. Marks School of Texas$50,000
The Foundation for Aids Research$38,500
The Open Mind Legacy Project Inc$25,000
Council on Foreign Relations$25,000
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Inc$25,000
The Intown Chabad Inc$25,000
Rice University (Richard Tapia Center For Excellence)$25,000
02Your 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 23 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
31

Total granted

$11M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+21%

Still filing today

61%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $322k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • C
    COMMIT2DALLAS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +28%
  • TH
    THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +69%
  • AT
    ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +218%

Funded once

  • SM
    St. Marks School Endowment Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +172%
  • KU
    Kansas University Endowment
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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

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
Dallas College Foundation Inc

Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.

Education
2
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
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
10
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
11
Manhattanville University

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

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Holdsworth Center and the most unlike its peers is The Open Mind Legacy Project Inc. 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 backsteadyCharter and Independent Sch…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way AffiliatesEducation Equity InitiativesJewish Community FederationsDomestic Violence and Sexua…Local History MuseumsVeteran Support ServicesGovernment Accountability &…Youth Sports ProgramsPublic Library SupportFood Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Literacy TutoringCollege Foundation SupportChildhood Cancer Support
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%44%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%34%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 44% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

03the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
21/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $4,225,000 · PhilanthropyDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION+7 more — $545,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreHarvard Business School — $1,725,000 · OtherHarvard Business SchoolSt. Marks School Endowment Fund — $1,000,000 · OtherSt. Marks School Endowment FundWorld Trade Center Performing Arts — $500,000 · OtherWorld Trade Center Performing ArtsJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA — $200,000 · Other+37 more — $838,893 · Other+37 moreST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $1,394,900 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXASPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $770,715 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Ha…COMMIT2DALLAS — $400,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASALCUIN SCHOOL — $400,000 · EducationALCUIN SCHOOL+9 more — $345,000 · Education+9 morePROJECT ALS INC — $790,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $38,500 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $75,000 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH — $25,000 · InternationalGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $60,000 · Community ImprovementDALLAS MOMENTUM INC — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$4,770,000Other$4,263,893Education$3,310,615Health$834,000Arts & Culture$278,500International$100,000Community Improvement$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $4,225,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS — $1,394,900 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC — $790,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $770,715 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS — $400,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALCUIN SCHOOL — $400,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS — $155,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALLAS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER — $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $38,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GATEHOUSE CORPORATION — $35,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHARRIS COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COORDINATING COUNCIL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUALITY OF LIFE FOUNDATION FOR METROPOLITAN DALLAS — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS MOMENTUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWITH HONOR INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDALLAS CITIZENS COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD HAVEN PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSPOON FOUNDATION — $3,333 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW ROSE GALA FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $1,000 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…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Texas Instruments Fou…Communities Foundatio…Susser Family Foundat…The Hersh FoundationDalio Family Fund IncNational Philanthropi…The Ford FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY23.4× affinity11 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 · 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

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robert S Kaplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert S 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 73 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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