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The Kaplen Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+9 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY | $1,100,000 |
| KAPLEN JCC ON THE PALISADES | $826,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI OF BERGEN COUNTY | $665,096 |
| ADLER APHASIA CENTER | $501,800 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NJ | $500,850 |
| JEWISH HOME FOUNDATION | $401,100 |
| BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE | $375,000 |
| ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $320,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $251,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CO | $100,000 |
| THE ARNOLD P GOLD FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION | $40,000 |
| BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH | $30,000 |
| NORTH JERSEY FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 7 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +39%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +47%
- RTROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW Jone grant, 2022 · $521k
- SCSephardic Congregation of New Englandone grant, 2021 · $50k
- TCTHE CODEY FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -99% · 39% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Daughters of Miriam Center and the most unlike its peers is Tenafly Educational Foundation. 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.
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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
86 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. 86 of the 180 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BERGEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADLER APHASIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds BERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FOOD ACTION IN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds NORTH JERSEY FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE CODEY FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIONAID USA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST SENIOR CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Pseg Foundation Inc · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Chest of Englewood · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Valley Hospital Inc
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 Kaplen 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc — 69% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- North Jersey Friendship House Inc — 19% of income from government
- Adler Aphasia Center — 12% of income from government
- West Bergen Mental Healthcare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Volunteer Center of Bergen County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Daughters of Miriam Center — 1% of income from government
- Center for Food Action in New Jersey — 0% of income from government
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.
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