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The Samuel and Sylvia Kaplan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Samuel and Sylvia Kaplan Family Foundation

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.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$430kReligion$286kArts & Culture$208kHealth$175kHuman Services$135kFood & Nutrition$42kYouth Development$33kEducation$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION$60,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$32,500
TEMPLE ISRAEL$30,400
KID MUSEUM$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC$10,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINTON$10,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$10,000
HERZL CAMP$10,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$8,200
TEMPLE SINAI$7,310
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$5,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$5,000
ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION$4,110
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $1k → 13%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $1k → 9%GET LIVE 45 FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $3k → 10%TRARON CENTER: $1k → 14%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%HIPS: $1k → 14%IMPACT LIVES: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$879k · 30 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
34

Total granted

$879k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+9%

Still filing today

63%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
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

  • MK
    MOCO KIDSCO INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +279%
  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +30%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $77k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • IF
    IMAGINE FARMS
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +21%
  • HH
    HAVEN HOUSING
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -99%
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.

04Its 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.

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National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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6
Moral Compass Federation Inc

Moral compass federation facilitates collaboration among multiple veteran-led nonprofit organizations, individuals, and businesses who came together during the fall of kabul, afghanistan to evacuate and resettle afghan allies who were in…

Public Benefit
7
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
8
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.

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9
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Prrowess Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
40/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $347,000 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER …+6 more: $24,500 · Philanthropy+6 moreJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $108,500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICESTEMPLE ISRAEL: $80,800 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $29,800 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELTEMPLE SINAI: $27,207 · OtherTEMPLE SINAIADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION: $21,553 · OtherHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 · Other+49 more: $166,700 · Other+49 moreMOCO KIDSCO INC: $173,500 · Arts & CultureMOCO KIDSCO INCMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $20,500 · Arts & Culture+8 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $77,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $67,600 · HealthCROHN'S & COL…Access Institute for Psychological Services: $14,000 · HealthAccess Instit…IDENTITY INC: $10,000 · HealthIDENTITY INC+4 more: $7,000 · HealthJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $125,000 · ReligionJ STREET …MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionNEW ISRAEL FUND: $18,000 · InternationalCOLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT: $2,500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · International
Philanthropy$421,500Other$457,060Arts & Culture$204,000Health$175,600Religion$125,000Food & Nutrition$29,500International$24,000

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 budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $347,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOCO KIDSCO INC: $173,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $77,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $67,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Institute for Psychological Services: $14,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIDENTITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH ON WASHINGTON FILM FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRROWESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY DOG ANIMAL RESCUE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLATERAL REPAIR PROJECT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOVING COMPANY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET HAVEN INC OF MINNESOTA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSINAI ASSISTED HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAT THE WELL PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE REPRODUCTIVE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Phileona Foundati…The Jewish Federation…United Way of the Nat…ImpactassetsincJewish Community Fede…Petsmart Charities IncNational Philanthropi…WK Kellogg Foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Phileona Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Petsmart Charities Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · WK Kellogg 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Samuel and Sylvia Kaplan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel and Sylvia Kaplan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Moco Kidsco Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Identity Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Samuel and Sylvia Kaplan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Samuel and Sylvia Kaplan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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