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The Kaplan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$967k
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$75k
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.

Arts & Culture$1.9MAnimals$1.9MFood & Nutrition$588kHealth$370kHuman Services$357kPhilanthropy$338kHousing & Shelter$138kRecreation & Sports$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$75,000
CINCINNATI BALLET$60,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$50,000
CET$45,000
SHOE4AFRICA$40,000
PEOPLE FOR ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS$35,000
MERCY FOR ANIMALS$30,000
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$30,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS$22,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK$20,000
OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER$20,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$20,000
OHIO PET FUND$20,000
MID OHIO FOODBANK$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $5k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $4k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $4k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $4k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $4k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $4k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $4k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $2k → 15%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $2k → 15%ST STEPHAN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $7k → 15%ST STEPHAN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $7k → 15%ST STEPHAN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $6k → 15%ST STEPHAN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $6k → 15%ST STEPHAN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $6k → 15%ST STEPHAN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 15%ST STEPHAN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $2k → 15%SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF OHIO: $5k → 15%BUCKEYE RANCH: $5k → 16%BUCKEYE RANCH: $5k → 15%BUCKEYE RANCH: $5k → 15%BUCKEYE RANCH: $5k → 15%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

WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
TX
FL

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 71 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

71 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
21

Total granted

$5.7M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+36%

Still filing today

79%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
AnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • TC
    The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $760k · revenue +64%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +147%
  • INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $244k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • LA
    LOIS AND RICHARD ROSENTHAL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • CA
    CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $49k · revenue +113%
  • II
    ISPACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +53%

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
Columbus Cares for Cats
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2
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
3
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
4
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
5
League for Animal Welfare

To reduce the number of homeless cats and dogs in greater cincinnati by providing a compassionate, no-kill animal shelter and programs that promote responsible pet care.

Animals
6
Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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 rehabilitation, and 3)…

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7
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
8
Toledo Humane Society

Prevention/treatment of cruelty to animals

Animals
9
Paws and Prayers Inc

None

Animals
10
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
11
Ohio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc

Enrich the lives of cats and communities in Greater Cincinnati by providing low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter services for ferals, strays and pets; offering trap-neuter-return and other outreach programs; and operating a no-kill adoption…

Animals
12
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 Haven House Emergency Shelter. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#21#5#22#13#23#10#24#11
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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr18%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr18%41%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/77
the rest of the field
13%
5,473/41,718

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

73 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. 73 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
56/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CET — $355,000 · OtherCETLOIS AND RICHARD ROSENTHAL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $200,000 · OtherLOIS AND RICHARD ROSENTHAL CENTER FOR …CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $160,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $105,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS — $100,500 · OtherMid-Ohio Foodbank — $97,000 · OtherWHHS ALUMNI FOUNDATION — $82,000 · OtherGEAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY - RESCUE VILLAGE — $80,000 · OtherUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $100,000 · Other+36 more — $841,025 · Other+36 morePEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $265,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATME…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $244,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL …MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $209,000 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INCCOLUMBUS DOG CONNECTION INC — $119,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS DOG CONNECTION INCFAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $92,000 · AnimalsFAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER — $90,000 · AnimalsLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $86,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $80,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION — $77,000 · AnimalsTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI — $76,000 · Animals+16 more — $369,850 · Animals+16 moreThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $760,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Compan…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $475,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $169,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTCincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Playhouse in the …+5 more — $89,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreJewish Federation of Columbus — $89,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $61,000 · PhilanthropyFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $105,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $90,000 · Food & NutritionVEGAN OUTREACH INC — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $5,000 · Food & NutritionRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC — $100,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $48,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $35,000 · Health+2 more — $5,300 · HealthST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $38,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE — $35,000 · Human ServicesCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY — $29,800 · Human ServicesTHE BUCKEYE RANCH INC — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$2,120,525Animals$1,707,850Arts & Culture$1,593,000Philanthropy$300,000Food & Nutrition$210,000Health$188,300Human Services$163,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $760,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $475,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $265,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $244,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $209,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART — $169,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS DOG CONNECTION INC — $119,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS — $100,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC — $100,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank — $97,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $92,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetOHIO WILDLIFE CENTER — $90,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Columbus — $89,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $86,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $80,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCOLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION — $77,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI — $76,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CITIES HARVEST INC — $70,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $61,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHOE4AFRICA INC — $55,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $52,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION — $49,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $48,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE SANCTUARY — $43,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati — $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO — $42,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetClinton County Humane Society Company — $42,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD — $42,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetATHENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $42,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO — $41,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY — $41,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetST STEPHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $38,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHARED HARVEST FOODBANK INC — $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetATHENS COUNTY FOOD PANTRY — $37,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY — $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY — $29,800 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetISPACE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $22,400 over 6y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS DOG CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER COLUMBUS ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
  • Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
  • Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Columbus ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITIES HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds SHOE4AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati ↗

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 FoundationUnited Way of Central…L Brands FoundationThe Greater Cincinnat…American Electric Pow…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Charles H Dater Found…John a Schroth Family…Hcs FoundationJohnson Charitable Gi…Cardinal Health Found…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Columbus FoundationOH29.3× affinity17 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 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Hcs Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Cardinal Health Foundation · 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 organization 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Kaplan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines