How much did THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

assocaition

2020

campdreamartringlingjohn

2021

statesartringling

2022

ringling

2023

yiddishringling

2024

yiddishringling

2025

yiddishringling

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 95 grants

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

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$71M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
NORTH JERSEY FRIENDSHIP HOUSE$30,000
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH$30,000

02The need

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 (FY19–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$45M · 122 repeat orgs$889k to everyone else

122 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122

Total granted

$45M

$861k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+25%

Still filing today

30%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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 Committee
7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +116%
JF
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
3× · 2019–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +7%
BV
Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $516k · revenue +215%

Funded once

JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW J
one grant, 2022 · $521k
SC
Sephardic Congregation of New England
one grant, 2021 · $50k
NJ
New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund Community Fdn of NJ
one grant, 2021 · $50k

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of

Philanthropic asset management and grantmaking to both jewish and secular charitable organizations.

Philanthropy

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

To support the delivery of health care services to patients in the new york metropolitan area.

Health

Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

To manage a continuum of senior care business lines.

Health

New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives

Arts & Culture

New Jersey State Bar Foundation

To foster an increased awareness, appreciation and knowledge of law and the legal system among new jersey residents.

Crime & Legal

The Baruch College Fund

The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc

To offer responsive and quality healthcare to the new york community while fulfilling the educational and entrepreneurial needs of our members.

Health

National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement

Foundation for Jewish

The 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, accepts,…

Philanthropy

Council of New Jersey Grantmakers Inc

Cnjg supports and elevates new jersey's philanthropic community through shared learning, collaborative and trusting relationships, networking building, and leadership.

Philanthropy

New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc

New jersey policy perspective (njpp) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture

Junior Achievement of New Jersey

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Daughters of Miriam Center and the most unlike its peers is Statue of Liberty Ellis Island. 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.

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 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/56

the rest of the field

10%

5,422/52,236

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.

05the grantee network

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/50

Grantees still filing

32/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$36,678,457Civil Rights$4,776,000Philanthropy$1,679,980Health$1,526,550Arts & Culture$1,035,050Crime & Legal$90,000Housing & Shelter$54,000

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.

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.

Pseg Foundation IncNJ26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pseg Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Henry & Marilyn Taub Foundation · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates · The Community Chest of Englewood · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Codey Fund for Mental Health.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454566326 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The Codey Fund for Mental Health, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 39% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Kaplen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kaplen Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kaplen Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE KAPLEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Kaplen Foundation?

More from the funding graph