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The Kaplen Brothers Fund Inc at a glance

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The Kaplen Brothers Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$24MEducation$2.5MEnvironment$2.2MHealth$1.9MHuman Services$1.4MCivil Rights$1.0MPhilanthropy$450kScience & Tech$425kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $541k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.9M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$1,000,000
YIDDISH BOOK CENTER$1,000,000
STORYCORPS$500,000
PEN AMERICA$500,000
WNYC NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$400,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$250,000
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND$250,000
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$200,000
FILM FORUM$200,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES$150,000
ABUNDANT WATERS INC$105,931
STORYCORPS$100,000
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND$100,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$100,000
THE PLAY COMPANY$85,000
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 (FY20–25, $150k) 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%BERKSHIRE FARM CENTER AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%BERKSHIRE FARM CENTER AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%BERKSHIRE FARM CENTER AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%BERKSHIRE FARM CENTER AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%TOGETHER FOR YOUTH: $25k → 11%TOGETHER FOR YOUTH: $25k → 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

NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
MS
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 50 repeat orgs$571k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
4

Total granted

$34M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+20%

Still filing today

74%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • RT
    ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +129%
  • NY
    NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +74%
  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AG
    ARTISANS GUILD OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -89%
  • TC
    Teatro Circulo LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +20%
  • TB
    THE BLACK BOX PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

1
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
2
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
3
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
4
Center for Contemporary Opera

Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…

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5
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Performance Space 122 Inc

See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…

Arts & Culture
7
The Irish Repertory Theatre Companyinc

The irish repertory theatre (the "theatre") mission is to bring works by irish and irish american masters and contemporary playwrights to american audiences, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary irish american experience…

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8
New York City Charter School of the Arts

New york city charter school of the arts (the "school") inspires a diverse community of young people to engage with the arts as a pathway to rich and rigorous academic scholarship and a creative, purposeful life.

Education
9
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
New York Council for the Humanities

The mission of humanities new york is to strengthen civil society and the bonds of community, using the humanities to foster engaged inquiry and dialogue around social and cultural concerns.

Arts & Culture
12
The New York Festival of Song Inc

NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Community Trust; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 59 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
29/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $5,635,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INCNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $5,168,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INCPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $2,600,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INCNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,400,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIOSTORYCORPS INC: $2,350,000 · Arts & CultureSTORYCORPS INCTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $1,422,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INCTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $1,225,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INC: $1,200,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $1,780,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPTHALMOLOGY: $1,550,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…ABUNDANT WATERS INC: $930,125 · OtherABUNDANT WATERS INCIndividual grant recipient: $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $450,000 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON U…COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY DEPT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $350,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $325,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY HOME FOUNDATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $225,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $325,000 · Other+16 more: $1,503,500 · Other+16 moreCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $1,650,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $325,000 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $120,000 · Environment+1 more: $60,000 · EnvironmentEMERSON COLLEGE: $575,000 · EducationUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $275,000 · EducationTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $110,000 · EducationDE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $70,000 · EducationSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $900,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER FOR YOUTH: $150,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $265,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $450,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$23,780,500Other$6,108,625Environment$2,155,000Education$1,130,000Human Services$1,050,000Civil Rights$535,000Philanthropy$450,000

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 budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $5,635,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $5,168,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $2,600,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,400,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC: $2,350,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $1,650,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetTHE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC: $1,422,500 over 6y, 37% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $1,225,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $1,200,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetABUNDANT WATERS INC: $930,125 over 6y, 46% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $900,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $575,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $475,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $350,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $325,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $325,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $325,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $275,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $265,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $205,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $200,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTOGETHER FOR YOUTH: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMBER WAVES FARM INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDE LA SALLE ACADEMY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetARTISANS GUILD OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDUNES ART FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budget350ORG: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSCOOL SOUNDS INC: $47,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSEUMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeatro Circulo LTD: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $12,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMHERST EARLY MUSIC INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetONE LANDSCAPE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% 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 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE PLAY PRODUCTION COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds ABUNDANT WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMBER WAVES FARM INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Ford FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY18× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Kaplen Brothers Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kaplen Brothers Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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