Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation

• Your work fits best if it sits in schools or universities, youth or family services, or arts and cultural organisations, which are the areas the filing describes, with a smaller number of grants for summer camperships and scholarships.
• Most of its 68 grants to organisations fall between $10,000 and $30,000, with a median of $25,000, so a request in that range is realistic, although its largest grant was $55,000.
• The foundation states no geographic focus, but its grants have mainly gone to Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, Florida and Rhode Island, so organisations elsewhere should not assume they are excluded.
• Apply by a written letter setting out your cause and work, the amount you want and how it would be used, since the filing gives no deadline and no eligibility criteria.
• Expect much of its money to go to groups it has funded before, because 81% of its grant dollars to organisations went to repeat recipients, so a first request needs a clear, specific case.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth · General funding
  $55,0002024 tax year
• Kennedy-Donovan Center · General funding
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Nativity Preparatory School · General funding
  $30,0002024 tax year
• Meeting Street · General funding
  $30,0002024 tax year
• Women's Center · General funding
  $30,0002024 tax year
• Global Learning Charter Public School · General funding
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Sweet Dream Makers · General funding
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Levine School of Music · General funding
  $25,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.