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The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation

The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($43). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$590k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$43
Net assets
$12M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation does

Mission

The organization's mission is to provide grants for innovative and creative projects and research that will significantly improve and enhance the development, health, safety, education or quality of life of children from infancy through seven years of age.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($501k) Expenses 100 ($820k) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 104 ($522k) Expenses 59 ($484k) Net assets 90 ($9.5M)2019 Revenue 114 ($569k) Expenses 63 ($519k) Net assets 104 ($11M)2020 Revenue 52 ($259k) Expenses 64 ($524k) Net assets 112 ($12M)2021 Revenue 341 ($1.7M) Expenses 83 ($683k) Net assets 121 ($13M)2022 Revenue 114 ($573k) Expenses 69 ($569k) Net assets 88 ($9.3M)2023 Revenue 18 ($89k) Expenses 51 ($421k) Net assets 101 ($11M)2024 Revenue 118 ($590k) Expenses 71 ($580k) Net assets 110 ($12M)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (71)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $9.3M (−27%).

$11M
$9.7M
$11M
$12M
$13M
$9.3M
$11M
$12M
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How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$318k
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$38k
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9.5
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reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $32 → $11.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve9.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation?
The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($43). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43 in grants to The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Theresa and Frank Caplan Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing