· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +16% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +39%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +47%
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY NEW YORK3× · 2023–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +9%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW Jone grant, 2022 · $521k
- TCTHE CODEY FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -99% · 39% of their budget
- SCSephardic Congregation of New Englandone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
How this is measured
87 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. 87 of the 180 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- 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 THE CODEY FUND FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds ACTIONAID USA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST SENIOR CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kaplen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kaplen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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