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The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.9M
Granted FY2023
22
Itemized grants FY2023
18
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$5.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
8
Total assets, FY2023
$63M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202318$5.2M56%
FY202214$4.8M43%
FY202117$5.7M71%
FY202013$5.5Mn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$10MHealth$3.9MArts & Culture$3.1MEnvironment$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.1MRecreation & Sports$1.0MReligion$500kPublic Benefit$200kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shed NYC Inc$3,050,00043%
Williams College$2,500,00040%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$2,200,00040%
The Howard University$1,810,00030%
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$1,100,00033%
Northwestern University$1,000,00010%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$750,00032%
Vanderbilt University$750,00020%
University of Chicago$500,00010%
College Summit Inc$500,000116%
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All grantees of The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Shed NYC Inc$3,050,00043%
Williams College$2,500,00040%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$2,200,00040%
The Howard University$1,810,00030%
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$1,100,00033%
Northwestern University$1,000,00010%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$750,00032%
Vanderbilt University$750,00020%
University of Chicago$500,00010%
College Summit Inc$500,000116%
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc$500,00012%
Trinity by the Cove Episcopal Church$250,0001n/a
Community Foundation Inc$250,0001n/a
The Barack Obama Foundation$200,00010%
Naples Children Foundation Inc$100,00011%
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida$100,00011%
Gilman School Incorporated$100,00010%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$55,00020%
Ideal Education Foundation$45,000259%
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship$25,00010%
American Foundation for University of the West Indies Inc$25,00013%
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights$20,00010%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Hispanic Federation Inc$10,00010%
Readworksinc$10,00010%
Humanity in Action Inc$5,00011%
The Kosciuszko Foundation Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShed NYC Inc: $3,050,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetWilliams College: $2,500,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $2,200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Howard University: $1,810,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNaples Botanical Garden Inc: $1,100,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $750,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $750,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Summit Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNaples Children Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGilman School Incorporated: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIdeal Education Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetNetwork for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Foundation for University of the West Indies Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHispanic Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReadworksinc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHumanity in Action Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Kosciuszko Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04

How much does The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 give?
The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 reported 22 itemized grants totaling $5,443,500, out of $6,943,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (9%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Shed NYC Inc ($3.0M), Williams College ($2.5M), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($2.2M).
Does The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 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 Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 based?
The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 is based in NY.

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 42 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $8.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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