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The Deanne & Arnold 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$723kReligion$104kArts & Culture$72kScience & Tech$61kFood & Nutrition$22kHuman Services$10kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$1,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$624k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,600,693
Individual grant recipient$260,045
TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECH$60,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$19,000
Individual grant recipient$4,050
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK$3,000
KESTENBAUM COMPANY LLC$2,662
J GREENSTEIN & CO$2,285
NMAHJ$1,800
Individual grant recipient$1,800
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$1,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$1,000
B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION$1,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $236) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LEHIGH VAL: $236 → 11%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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 20 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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19

Total granted

$1.8M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+44%

Still filing today

50%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +160%
  • AT
    ASOLO THEATRE INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +13%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • NM
    NEVE MICHAEL CHILDREN'S VILLAGE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
9
Association for Jewish Studies Inc

The association for jewish studies is a learned society and professional organization whose mission is to advance research and teaching in jewish studies at colleges, universities, and other ... continued on schedule o

Education
10
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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12
University of Judaism Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Western States Jewish History. 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

24 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. 24 of the 58 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,600,693 · OtherIndividual grant recipientENDOWED POSITION AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,137,500 · OtherENDOWED POSITION AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAIndividual grant recipient: $300,560 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $150,000 · Other+36 more: $363,758 · Other+36 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $512,208 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FED…+4 more: $11,698 · PhilanthropyALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $17,200 · Food & NutritionASOLO THEATRE INC: $6,100 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Opera Association Inc: $1,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $75 · Arts & CultureJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,160 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,000 · Civil RightsDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $765 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200 · Education+1 more: $10 · Education
Other$3,552,511Philanthropy$523,906Food & Nutrition$17,200Arts & Culture$16,425International$6,160Civil Rights$2,000Education$1,475

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $512,208 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $17,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $6,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,160 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $6,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $3,378 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL: $1,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,100 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $765 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $236 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $85 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN STATES JEWISH HISTORY: $50 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $10 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Deanne & Arnold Kaplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Deanne & Arnold 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 58 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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