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The David and Meredith Kaplan Foundation at a glance

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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.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$15MEducation$2.6MInternational$1.5MReligion$1.1MPhilanthropy$838kCivil Rights$535kArts & Culture$510kYouth Development$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.4M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MAYO CLINIC$200,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$200,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$150,000
WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$50,000
SIXPOINT INC$50,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$50,000
YOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%F&D WEST FUND: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
CT
CA
MD
DC
MS
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The David and Meredith Kaplan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The David and Meredith Kaplan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 18 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$19M
$767k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+77%

Still filing today

89%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +63%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    7× · 2017–2023 · $5.8M · revenue +202%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -15%
  • AI
    ASIF Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • EL
    Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depressiongraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +310%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
3
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
4
American Academy of Dermatology Inc

To assure that dermatologists have access to the highest quality education, research and innovations in the field, and that patients and the public have access to the highest quality medical and surgical dermatologic care and to…

Health
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

—
9
International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology Inc

The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.

Health
10
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.

—
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Early Education; 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.
05the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $6,541,667 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERMAYO CLINIC: $600,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER I…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $360,000 · Health+8 more: $335,000 · HealthUniversity of Michigan: $5,840,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $1,068,000 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $950,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN+9 more: $230,000 · OtherBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $1,160,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD SCH…THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $600,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FO…MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL: $464,000 · EducationMARLBOROUGH S…Emory University: $250,000 · EducationEmory Univers…+7 more: $146,845 · Education+7 moreAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $775,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $350,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $313,500 · InternationalARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $750,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $500,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$8,336,667Other$8,088,000Education$2,620,845International$1,438,500Philanthropy$850,000Civil Rights$510,000Arts & Culture$510,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $6,541,667 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $1,160,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $775,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetARES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $600,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL: $464,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $360,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $313,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEmory University: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetASIF Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIXPOINT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $45,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND: $27,280 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJQ INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetERASE PTSD NOW INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $16,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGBIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAREMESSAGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $5,265 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…California Community …Jewish Community Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Resslergertz Foun…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY17.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The David and Meredith Kaplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David and Meredith Kaplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The David and Meredith Kaplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The David and Meredith 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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