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The Caplan-Bensley 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through 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 FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$179kAnimals$25kArts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$350
Median grant
23
States reached
$200k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES$10,000
NORTHERN ILLINIOS FOOD BANK$6,000
COLORADO PET PANTRY$5,000
TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK OF FORT PIERCE$3,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO$2,000
FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK$1,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK CCL$1,000
FACING HUNGER FOOD BANK$750
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST TENNESSEE$750
FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN$750
FOOD BANK OF THE ALBEMARIE$750
Individual grant recipient$500
SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$500
LOW COUNTY FOOD BANK$500
FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA$500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YUMA FOOD BANK: $500 → 15%FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN: $750 → 13%NORTH COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1k → 11%CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $500 → 12%REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $500 → 9%FEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE: $1k → 11%FEEDMORE WNY FOOD BANK: $3k → 13%FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $1k → 14%COUNTRY KIDS 4H FOOD PANTRY INC: $12k → 14%WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $750 → 16%COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $500 → 17%SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $500 → 21%LOW COUNTY FOOD BANK: $500 → 12%RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $1k → 17%TREASURER COAST FOOD BANK: $3k → 9%FEEDING TAMPA BAY: $1k → 13%TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK OF FORT PIERCE: $4k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST TENNESSEE: $750 → 15%GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA: $3k → 16%FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK: $1k → 19%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $2k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK CCL: $1k → 15%FACING HUNGER FOOD BANK: $750 → 19%NORTHERN ILLINIOS FOOD BANK: $6k → 8%FEEDMORE WNY FOOD BANK: $1k → 13%COUNTRY KIDS 4H FOOD PANTRY INC: $7k → 14%TREASURER COAST FOOD BANK: $3k → 9%TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK OF FORT PIERCE: $3k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST TENNESSEE: $750 → 15%GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA: $1k → 16%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO: $1k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK CCL: $1k → 15%FACING HUNGER FOOD BANK: $750 → 19%COUNTRY KIDS 4H FOOD PANTRY INC: $6k → 14%TREASURER COAST FOOD BANK: $3k → 9%FEEDING TAMPA BAY: $5k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 15%CUB'S PLACE: $3k → 14%FEEDING TAMPA BAY: $4k → 13%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 15%FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $38k → 14%FEEDING TAMPA BAY: $1k → 13%FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $20k → 14%FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $15k → 14%FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $4k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $2k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$194k · 27 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
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Total granted

$194k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+1%

Still filing today

74%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionAnimalsCommunity 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

  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $74k · revenue +613%
  • CP
    COLORADO PET PANTRY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • RF
    REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CP
    CUB'S PLACE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $3k
  • RV
    RIVER VALLEY REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k

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
Food Bank for the Heartland

To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.

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2
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
3
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
7
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
9
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc

We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
West Alabama Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Hidden Hollow Farm Riding Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%83%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%88%35–55yr16%1%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%0/46
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,714

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

46 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. 46 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
16/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $74,051 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INCFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $11,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INCNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $6,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK+26 more — $19,100 · Food & Nutrition+26 moreCOUNTRY KIDS 4H FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,000 · OtherCOUNTRY KIDS 4H FOOD PANTRY INCRECORDS PEOPLE TO PEOPLE FUND — $24,500 · OtherRECORDS PEOPLE TO PEOPLE FUNDREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF — $10,000 · OtherREGIONAL FOOD BANK OFTREASURER COAST FOOD BANK — $7,500 · OtherTREASURER COAST FOOD BANKTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK OF FORT PIERCE — $6,000 · OtherTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK OF FORT PIERCEGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $4,500 · OtherFEEDMORE WNY FOOD BANK — $4,000 · Other+16 more — $15,250 · Other+16 moreCOLORADO PET PANTRY — $15,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO PE…PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES — $10,000 · AnimalsPAWS - PROV…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI — $11,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $1,000 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$110,151Other$96,750Animals$25,000Philanthropy$11,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $74,051 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO PET PANTRY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO TRI COUNTY FOOD ALLIANCE DBA SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ALBEMARLE — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Ohio Food Bank — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $250 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.

Feeding AmericaThe Kroger Co Zero Hu…The Westfield Insuran…Enterprise Holdings F…The Kroger Co Foundat…Atlanta Community Foo…Charities Aid Foundat…Marni & Morris Propp …Share Our StrengthThe Houston Food BankAmerican Electric Pow…Carmax Foundation
Feeding AmericaIL43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Feeding America · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · The Houston Food Bank · American Electric Power Foundation · Carmax 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 The Caplan-Bensley 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 The Caplan-Bensley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Caplan-Bensley 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 56 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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