How much does Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc give?

Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $662,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Human Services (15%), Health (7%).

Who are Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($608k), Port Chester Carver Center Inc ($170k), Salisbury School Inc ($150k).

Does Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.

Where is Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc based?

Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc is based in NY.

Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc

Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$663k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$518k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$352kHealth$172kReligion$160kInternational$85kPhilanthropy$65kAnimals$42kArts & Culture$33kOther$0

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $518k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$296k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY	$517,500
MON PETITE MARINGOUIN INC	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$50,000
BREAKTHROUGH NEW YORK	$15,000
THE PUBLIC THEATER	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
FOUNDATION TO FIGHT HUNGER	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 30 repeat orgs$654k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$614k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

Still filing today

47%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2025 · $608k · revenue +47%
PC
PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $170k · revenue +131%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +74%

Funded once

SS
SALISBURY SCHOOL INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +40%
FO
FRIENDS OF CORPUS CHRISTI INC
one grant, 2024 · $107k · revenue 0%
TI
THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +28%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Part of the Solution; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Corpus Christi Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

26/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$925,000Other$872,500Human Services$215,000Community Improvement$107,000Health$97,000International$75,000Arts & Culture$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bernard & Muriel Lauren FoundationNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bernard & Muriel Lauren Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara Dorsch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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