New Jersey · Private foundation
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.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 95
- Grants FY2025
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 90 to 97
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $62M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Kaplen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 92 | $5.1M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 90 | $7.4M | 6% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $7.4M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 97 | $6.9M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 96 | $6.5M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 97 | $5.6M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 95 | $3.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee | $2,426,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $2,350,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Dominican University New York | $2,300,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $1,946,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Temple Sinai of Bergen County | $1,143,954 | 7 | n/a |
| Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc | $970,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Adler Aphasia Center | $956,800 | 7 | 7% |
| Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative Inc | $515,750 | 7 | 7% |
| The Arnold Gold Foundation | $401,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Center for Food Action in New Jersey | $290,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kaplen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Kaplen Foundation
- How much does The Kaplen Foundation give?
- The Kaplen Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $5,586,443 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 90 and 97 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Kaplen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Religion (25%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The Kaplen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Jewish Committee ($2.4M), Anti-Defamation League ($2.4M), Dominican University New York ($2.3M).
- Does The Kaplen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kaplen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Kaplen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation, Columbia Bank Foundation, Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund.
- Where is The Kaplen Foundation based?
- The Kaplen Foundation is based in NJ.
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