· Private foundation
The David and Meredith 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
- $10k–50k7 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $1,428,571 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $666,667 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $500,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES INC | $350,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $250,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $200,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $200,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $150,000 |
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| YOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| SIXPOINT INC | $50,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 7% of The David and Meredith 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +63%- UOUniversity of Michigan7× · 2017–2023 · $5.8M · revenue +202%
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -15%
- AIASIF Incone grant, 2017 · $50k
- ELErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depressiongraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +310%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Early Education and the most unlike its peers is The F&D West Fund 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 45 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 CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ASIF Inc ↗
- Who funds SIXPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERASE PTSD NOW INC ↗
- Who funds JQ INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds MAGBIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds CAREMESSAGE ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Resslergertz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment 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 David and Meredith 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.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% 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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