· Private foundation
The Kaplan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $177k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $555k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $760k · revenue +64%
- PFPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +147%
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $244k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- LALOIS AND RICHARD ROSENTHAL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTone grant, 2023 · $200k
- CACINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $49k · revenue +113%
- IIISPACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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)…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Prevention/treatment of cruelty to animals
None
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…
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…
Rescue and adoption of animals
How this is measured
73 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. 73 of the 99 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST OHIO INC ↗
- 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 Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- 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 Clinton County Humane Society Company ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kaplan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kaplan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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