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The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan

Lakewood Ranch, FL · EIN 23-2961830. Reported 60 grants totalling $3,464,155 to 40 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.

Notold the IRS it takes no unsolicited requests
$1,459median grant
$3,464,155granted, 2021-2024
40recipients, as named on its returns
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$870,491assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement. A foundation can give a different answer on a later return, and this page is rebuilt when one is published. The rest of the page is its giving record: who it chose, and which of those make grants themselves.

Organizations it funds that make grants of their own

3 of the organizations The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan funded make grants themselves, and it reported 4 grants totalling $471,708 to them. That is 82% of the $573,121 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.

All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.

What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.

GrantmakerKindStateReceivedGrantsYearsLastOnly funds organizations it picks?
The Jewish Federation offederated giving programmeFlorida$469,708222022Its form does not ask
Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inccommunity foundationFlorida$1,000112021Its form does not ask
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Cocommunity foundationFlorida$1,000112022Its form does not ask

A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,459. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $14,500; the smallest was $10 and the largest $1,600,693.

Under $1,000
13 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
30 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
6 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Kaplan Collection JudaciaPhiladelphia, PA$1,600,693112024
Endowed Position at University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$737,500222022
Sarasota-Manatee Jewish FederationSarasota, FL$469,708222022
Smj FederationFlushing, NY$300,560222024
United Way of Lehigh ValleyAllentown, PA$100,000222022
Temple EmanuelSarasota, FL$80,000442024
Technion Israel Institute of TechTechnion City, Haifa$60,000112024
Neveh MichaelPardes Hannakarkur, Haifa$35,000112024
Sarasota Opera HouseSarasota, FL$29,500222023
All Faiths Food BankSarasota, FL$8,700442024
Legacy JudaciaLakewood, NJ$4,050112024
American Joint Committee on CancerChicago, IL$4,000222022
NmahjPhiladelphia, PA$3,600222024
American Jewish Historical SocietyNew York, NY$3,000222023
Florida Studio TheatreSarasota, FL$3,000332024
Jewish National FundNew York, NY$2,800222022
Kestenbaum Company LLCBrooklyn, NY$2,662112024
J Greenstein & CoCedarhurst, NY$2,285112024
Hebrew Union CollegeNew York, NY$2,000112022
Drexel HillelPhiladelphia, PA$1,800112024
Jewish Federation of Lehigh ValleyAllentown, PA$1,298222024
American Jewish CommitteeNew York, NY$1,000112024
Asolo TheatreSarasota, FL$1,000112022
B'nai B'rith Youth OrganizationWashington, DC$1,000112024
Community Foundation of Sarasota County IncSarasota, FL$1,000112022
Gulf Coast Community FoundationVenice, FL$1,000112021
Jewish National FundBala Cynwyd, PA$1,000112024
MazonLos Angeles, CA$1,000112022
TechnionNew York, NY$1,000112021
World Jewish CongressNew York, NY$1,000112024
Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$665222023
Meals on WheelsSarasota, FL$500112022
The TwigVenice, FL$400222024
Dan Wyman BooksBrooklyn, NY$333112024
Camp De WolfeWading River, NY$255112024
Beth El PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$250112022
Weitzman National Museum of Jewish HistoryPhiladelphia, PA$250112022
Jewish Family Service of Lehigh ValAllentown, PA$236112024
Hudson InstituteWashington, DC$100112024
Wikipedia FoundationSan Francisco, CA$10112022

15 of 40 (38%) 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 70%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 25 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Religion
4 grants
Education
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Civil Rights
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$576,200$2,700
202219$821,683$1,800
202310$69,633$1,059
202422$1,996,639$1,400

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

71% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania
$2.4M
Florida
$595K
New York
$317K
Haifa
$95K
New Jersey
$4K
Illinois
$4K
District of Columbia
$1K
California
$1K

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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipientsJewish Communal Fund10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipients

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Deanne & Arnold Kaplan's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 13235 Palmers Creek Terrace, Lakewood Ranch, FL, 34202. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.

EIN 23-2961830 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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