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The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan 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.

$70k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$316k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$65k17%
FY202415$79k27%
FY202311$66k27%
FY202212$66k42%
FY202111$47k73%
FY20207$29k43%
FY20196$17k50%
FY20185$23k80%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$198kEducation$63kPhilanthropy$41kAnimals$37kArts & Culture$30kFood & Nutrition$28kInternational$27kHealth$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Josephs Center$120,00050%
Wrc Inc$25,00050%
Birthright Israel Foundation$24,90070%
Children First PA$20,00040%
Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art$20,00031%
Achieve Now$20,00041%
Scranton Hebrew Day School$20,00012%
The Barnes Foundation$10,00040%
Rerun Inc$10,00021%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$7,50030%
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All grantees of The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Josephs Center$120,00050%
Wrc Inc$25,00050%
Birthright Israel Foundation$24,90070%
Children First PA$20,00040%
Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art$20,00031%
Achieve Now$20,00041%
Scranton Hebrew Day School$20,00012%
The Barnes Foundation$10,00040%
Rerun Inc$10,00021%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$7,50030%
Beth David Reform Congregation$5,0001n/a
Marley's Mission Inc$5,00012%
Child Hunger Outreach Partners$5,00010%
Keystone College$5,00010%
Indraloka Animal Sanctuary Inc$5,00020%
Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab$2,50010%
Anthony J Rinaldi Jr Foundation$2,50011%
The Catherine McAuley Center$2,50010%
Abington Community Library Association$2,50010%
Fork Over Love Inc$2,50011%
Compassionate Canines Inc$2,0001n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$1,80010%
Fair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$1,50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Josephs Center: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWrc Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $24,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First PA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEverhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art: $20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAchieve Now: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetScranton Hebrew Day School: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRerun Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarley's Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChild Hunger Outreach Partners: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeystone College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndraloka Animal Sanctuary Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnthony J Rinaldi Jr Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Catherine McAuley Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAbington Community Library Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFork Over Love Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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 21.

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.

Moses Taylor Foundation IncPA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Allone Charities · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust · Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family 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 Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation

How much does The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation give?
The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $69,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Education (14%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Josephs Center ($120k), Wrc Inc ($25k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($25k).
Does The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation 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 Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moses Taylor Foundation Inc, Scranton Area Foundation Inc, The Hawk Family Foundation.
Where is The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation based?
The Saul and Bernardine Kaplan Foundation is based in PA.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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