Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Marblehead, MA · EIN 04-6067737. Reported 251 grants totalling $1,087,700 to 101 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $2,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $66,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Science | Boston, MA | $224,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston University | Boston, MA | $221,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $123,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Block Island Medical Center | Block Island, RI | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | Boston, MA | $68,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | $61,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bridgeport Hospital | Bridgeport, CT | $38,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The San Francisco School | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fed of Jewish Philanthropy | Bridgeport, CT | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Temple Israel | Boston, MA | $14,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pink Aid | Westport, CT | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Woods Hole Oceaniographic Institute | Falmouth, MA | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $9,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congregation Shirat Hayam | Swampscott, MA | $8,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $7,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | New York, NY | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $6,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Combined Jewish Philanthropies | Boston, MA | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fairfield University Quick Center | Fairfield, CT | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Smile Train | New York, NY | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Anti-Defamation League | New York, NY | $5,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Block Island Emt | Block Island, RI | $5,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | Washington, DC | $5,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brooklyn College | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Melrose Education Foundation | Melrose, MA | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Urban School of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $4,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Block Island Historical Site | Block Island, RI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Exploratroium | San Francisco, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Center | Peabody, MA | $3,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Temple Beth Sholom | Framingham, MA | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Camp Tawonga | San Francisco, CA | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Humane Society | Newington, CT | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Community Federation | San Francisco, CA | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Tay Sacks | Brighton, MA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Idf | New York, NY | $2,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congregation Emanuel | Newton, MA | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| No Kid Hungry | W Washington, DC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple Beth Shalom | Melrose, MA | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Jewish Appeal | New York, NY | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Boating Inc | Boston, MA | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish National Fund | New York, NY | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Birthright Israel | New York, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridgeport Rescue Mission | Bridgeport, CT | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Walk Denver | Denver, CO | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jf & Cs North Shore | Waltham, MA | $1,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Melrose Food Drive | Melrose, MA | $1,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess | Boston, MA | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Block Island Nature Conservancy | Block Island, RI | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camera Org | Boston, MA | $1,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cha Foundation | Cambridge, MA | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kqed | San Francisco, CA | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lappin Foundation | Salem, MA | $1,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wbur | Boston, MA | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parkinson's Disease | Miami, FL | $1,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wers | Boston, MA | $1,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Opera | New York, NY | $1,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| 18 Reasons | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Mogen David Adom | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beaver Country Day School | Chestnut Hill, MA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Black River Good Neighbors | Ludlow, VT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Block Island Conservancy | Block Island, RI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Helping Hands Block Island | New Shoreham, RI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maine Adaptive Sports | Newry, ME | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Save a Child's Heart | Holon | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sf-Marin Food Bank | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Epstein Hillet School | Marblehead, MA | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Essex Heritage | Salem, MA | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hadassah | New York, NY | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Food Bank | San Francisco, CA | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| US Holocaust Memorial | Washington, DC | $750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the Reservation | Boston, MA | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beit Halochim | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jri - Poland | Roslyn Heights, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mass Audobon Society | Lincoln, MA | $500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Temple Emmanuel | Marblehead, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Food Drive | Melrose, MA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Hatzalah | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer's Association | Newton, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Epstein Hillel School | Marblehead, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | Boston, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holocaust Museum | Boston, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Yiddish Book Center | Amherst, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parkinson's Foundation | Miami, FL | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Bread | Boston, MA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chewonki Foundation | Wiscasset, ME | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Committee for Weizmann | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Committee | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Joint District | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Society for Yad Vashem | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Technion Society | Newton, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girls Inc of Lynn | Lynn, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillel International | Washington, DC | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| My Brothers Table | Lynn, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pine Street Inn | Boston, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pj Library | Agawam, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rosie's Place | Boston, MA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Simon Weisenthal Center | Los Angeles, CA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
62 of 101 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 85%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
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What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 114 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 57 | $260,650 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 50 | $254,800 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 55 | $260,300 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 89 | $311,950 | $500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 66% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Abraham Kaplan Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Donald Kaplan 89 Front St 310, Marblehead, MA, 01945. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 04-6067737 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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