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The William and Mildred Kaplan Foundation Inc at a glance

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The William and Mildred Kaplan Foundation Inc

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.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$168kCivil Rights$150kArts & Culture$100kHuman Services$99kEducation$98kCrime & Legal$81kPhilanthropy$52kPublic Benefit$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCA$20,000
FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$15,000
ACLU$15,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$15,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$10,000
CHADTOUGH$10,000
ERICA$10,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$10,000
FOOT STEPS$10,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION$10,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOC$10,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOT$10,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 14%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $3k → 11%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 14%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $3k → 11%CHADTOUGH: $10k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 14%THE Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND: $2k → 11%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FDTN: $10k → 14%THE Y IN CENTRAL MARYLAND: $2k → 11%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FDTN: $10k → 14%AYUDA: $5k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $3k → 14%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $3k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 58 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
29

Total granted

$1.0M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+24%

Still filing today

66%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    4× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +13%
  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +105%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • MN
    MONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $54k
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.

1
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
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
4
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
5
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
6
Usaging

Usaging represents & supports the national network of area agencies on aging & advocates for the title vi native american aging programs that help older adults & people with disabilities live with optimal health, well-being, independence &…

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7
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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8
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
9
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
10
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
11
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
12
Epilepsy Foundation of America

To improve the lives of peoples affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Roosevelt Hs Dc. 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

55 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. 55 of the 91 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)
53/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU: $75,000 · OtherACLUROCA: $60,000 · OtherROCAMONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $53,500 · OtherMONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTESUNFLOWER CO FREEDOM PROJECT: $40,000 · OtherSUNFLOWER CO FREEDOM PROJECTMONTREAL NEURO: $30,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $30,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $52,500 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION+51 more: $388,620 · Other+51 moreFOOTSTEPS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFOOTSTEPS…CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $5,000 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · EducationCornell University: $20,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $17,000 · EducationIMPROVING EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $75,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureUNICORN THEATRE: $7,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $36,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $13,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthItineris Foundation Inc: $4,000 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $4,000 · HealthBE A HERO EDUCATION FUND INC: $3,500 · HealthGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $40,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $7,000 · Civil RightsFREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK: $60,000 · PhilanthropyGOODS FOR GOOD: $12,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$729,620Human Services$104,000Education$95,000Arts & Culture$94,500Health$93,000Civil Rights$87,500Philanthropy$82,000

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 budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK: $60,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC: $14,620 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGOODS FOR GOOD: $12,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FRAGILE X FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNICORN THEATRE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPROVING EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAYUDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetItineris Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTION IN MATURITY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Youth Centers: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBE A HERO EDUCATION FUND INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC: $3,000 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.

  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LUKE'S YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODS FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗

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 Harry and Jeanett…Baltimore Community F…The Abell Foundation …The United Way of Cen…Associated Jewish Cha…T Rowe Price Program …Middendorf Foundation…David & Barbara B Hir…The Morris Goldseker …Fund for Educational …Baltimore Civic Fund …France-Merrick Founda…
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation IncMD19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc

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 William and Mildred Kaplan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William and Mildred Kaplan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Saint Luke's Youth Center Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp: 28% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
15report 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.

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 91 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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