Gary Kaplan, the Brooklyn-born BetOnSports founder turned Costa Rica-based philanthropist, runs the HG Kaplan Foundation and Water 4 Africa across Costa Rica, Uganda, and Zambia. Destination philanthropy as an operating model.
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Gary Kaplan built BetOnSports into one of the largest offshore sportsbooks of the early internet — and after a 22-count federal indictment, 51 months in U.S. prison, and a $43.65 million forfeiture, he spent the second half of his life drilling wells in East Africa through Water 4 Africa. The full arc.
