How much did THE KAPLAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE KAPLAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

ballet

2019

habitat humanitygreater cincinnatiway greaterfoodbankplayhousemid

2020

foodbankhavenmidhabitat humanityathensway greatergreater cleveland

2021

harvestfoodbankplayhousemidhabitat humanityathenspantry

2022

harvestfoodbankpantryfood bankathensmidway greater

2023

harvestfoodrescuefoodbankathenspantryway greater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k32 grants · $168k
$10k–50k27 grants · $473k
$50k–250k3 grants · $260k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants

CINCINNATI BALLET$160,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$50,000
CET$40,000
PEOPLE FOR ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS$35,000
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$30,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$30,000
KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE$25,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK$20,000
COLUMBUS DOG CONNECTION$20,000
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$20,000
MID OHIO FOODBANK$20,000
OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER$20,000
GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF COLUMBUS$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.8M · 67 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+42%

Still filing today

61%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
8× · 2017–2024 · $214k · revenue +36%
MF
MERCY FOR ANIMALS
7× · 2018–2024 · $179k · revenue +106%
CD
COLUMBUS DOG CONNECTION
8× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue +22%

Funded once

LA
LOIS AND RICHARD ROSENTHAL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
one grant, 2023 · $200k
CA
CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2021 · $49k · revenue +13%
I
ISPACE
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +14%

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.

Columbus Cares for Cats

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Animal Charity of Ohio Inc

The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.

Animals

Citizens for Humane Action Inc

Our mission is to serve the people and animals of Central Ohio by providing safe, temporary shelter and care for abandoned or otherwise homeless cats and dogs, and to reduce pet overpopulation by means of spay and neuter, education, and…

Civil Rights

Freedom Tails Ohio

Animal Rescue

Animals

Fulton County Humane Society

Animal adoption, spay and neuter programs.

Animals

Save Ohio Pets

SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…

Animals

United Coalition for Animals

Our mission is ending the euthanasia of cats and dogs in local shelters and keeping pets in their loving homes by providing professional and affordable spay/neuter and wellness services.

Animals

Toledo Humane Society

Prevention/treatment of cruelty to animals

Animals

Ohio Society for the Prevention of

The ohio society for the prevention of cruelty to animals works to prevent and stop cruelty to animals throughout ohio. our mission falls into three main areas: 1) intervention in cases of animal cruelty, 2) animal rehibilitation, and 3)…

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Jefferson County Humane Society

Animal welfare and protection in jefferson county, ohio including the employment of humane officers to investigate abuse and neglect of animals. oversee care and adoption of homeless animals housed at the jefferson county animal shelter.…

Animals

Humane Society of Sandusky County

Adopt animals and prevent animal abuse

Animals

Columbus Pet Rescue

Rescue and adoption of animals

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Humane and the most unlike its peers is Cancer Support Community - Greater. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/58

the rest of the field

6,874/74,248

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.

05the grantee network

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/55

Grantees still filing

48/55

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,106,025Animals$1,006,850Arts & Culture$608,000Philanthropy$193,000Food & Nutrition$170,000Health$128,300Human Services$104,300

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.

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.

Columbus FoundationOH29.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · L Brands Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Ge Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 organisation THE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTRAL OHIO PIT SAVERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464452448 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTRAL OHIO PIT SAVERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Kaplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kaplan Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE KAPLAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kaplan Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE KAPLAN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kaplan Foundation?

More from the funding graph