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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
21
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.

Education$8.4MArts & Culture$3.3MEnvironment$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.0MHealth$500kPhilanthropy$100kInternational$56kYouth Development$25kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$6.7M
02FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $5,343,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,943,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,600,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $695k
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.6M
$200,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University Of Virginia Advancement Operations$1,000,000
The University Of Chicago Law School$600,000
The President & Trustees Of Williams College$550,000
College Summit Inc$500,000
Hospital For Special Surgery$500,000
Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$500,000
Vanderbilt University Development & Alumni Relations$375,000
Naples Botanical Garden$300,000
Community Foundation Of Collier County$250,000
The Barack Obama Foundation$200,000
Shed Nyc, Inc$200,000
Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai$100,000
Naples Botanical Garden$100,000
Howard University$95,000
American Foundation For The University Of The West Indies$25,000
02Your 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 12 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
19

Total granted

$15M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • Williams College
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +51%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +39%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
  • TH
    The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +16%
  • CS
    COLLEGE SUMMIT INC (DBA PEERFORWARD)
    one grant, 2021 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your 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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Summit Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Conservancy of Southwest Florida. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Hospital SystemsEnvironmental Advocacy and …Community FoundationsCharter and Independent Sch…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Community Literacy TutoringVeteran Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Education Equity InitiativesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,732

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.

03the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Williams College — $2,500,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $2,200,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAITHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $1,810,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYVanderbilt University — $750,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityUniversity of Chicago — $500,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC — $500,000 · EducationCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC+3 more — $155,000 · EducationHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY — $1,150,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYUniversity Of Virginia Advancement Operations — $1,000,000 · OtherUniversity Of Virginia Advancement …College Summit Inc — $1,000,000 · OtherCollege Summit IncVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS — $750,000 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT &…COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCThe University Of Chicago Law School — $600,000 · OtherThe University Of Chicago Law Schoo…COLLEGE SUMMIT INC (DBA PEERFORWARD) — $500,000 · OtherCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC (DBA PEERFORWARD…TRINITY BY THE COVE EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $250,000 · OtherTRINITY BY THE COVER — $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · Other+15 more — $313,869 · OtherSHED NYC INC — $3,050,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INCTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA …+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $750,000 · EnvironmentNorthwestern University — $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $500,000 · HealthNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Philanthropy
Education$8,415,000Other$6,813,869Arts & Culture$3,260,000Environment$1,500,000Recreation & Sports$1,000,000Health$500,000Philanthropy$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 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 budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $750,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE SUMMIT INC — $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIDEAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines