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The Kapnick Foundation U/A/S 8/15/04 at a glance

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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
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $5,443,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,943,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,500,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $795k
  • $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
Naples Botanical Garden$100,000
Howard University$95,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 12 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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, 64% 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
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.

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%
  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +52%
  • CS
    COLLEGE SUMMIT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +45%
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.

03Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is College Summit Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 42 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 SURGERYCollege Summit Inc: $1,000,000 · OtherCollege Summit IncUniversity Of Virginia Advancement Operations: $1,000,000 · OtherUniversity Of Virginia Advancement …COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS: $750,000 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT &…The 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 & CultureNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,100,000 · EnvironmentNAPLES BO…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERG…Northwestern 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$1,850,000Recreation & Sports$1,000,000Health$500,000Philanthropy$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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
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.

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.

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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