· Private foundation
Steven Lawrence 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $136k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HOPE | $500,000 |
| THE TGEN FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $45,000 |
| FIDF | $45,000 |
| CHABAD OF SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $10,000 |
| CHILDHELP | $7,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| SOJOURNER CENTER | $5,000 |
| ROHR CHABAD AT ASU | $5,000 |
| MOISHE HOUSE | $3,600 |
| HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO | $3,600 |
| CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FDN OF SO CAL | $3,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Steven Lawrence Kaplan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2024 · $59k · revenue +122%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +63%- HHHAMBURGER HOME4× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WBWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +58%
- KSKLAMATH SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FDTNone grant, 2020 · $3k
- CRCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -7%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of aawl/spca is to provide excellent care, protection, and loving compassion for the life of the animals entrusted to us and to take a leadership role in promoting humane values for the benefit of all animals and people. aawl…
The fund's primary exempt mission is to solicit grants and contributions to support the educational mission of the bar-ilan university's azrieli faculty of medicine in the galilee.
The mission of the ardf is to fund and promote the development, validation and adoption of non-animal methods in biomedical research, product testing, and education.
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Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
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Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sojourner Center and the most unlike its peers is California Highway Patrol. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAMBURGER HOME ↗
- Who funds THE AMANDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BHHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BEAGLE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: A R K a Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Steven Lawrence 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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