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Da Capo Foundation Inc at a glance

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Da Capo 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$53kHealth$33kCommunity Improvement$2kInternational$2kHuman Services$1kEducation$1kPublic Benefit$250Animals$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$481k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Da Capo Alliance Foundation$3,000
New York Medical College$3,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art$2,100
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$1,500
Nippon Club$1,060
Salon De Virtuosi Inc$1,000
JAPANESE CHILDRENS SOCIETY INC$1,000
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$750
Frick Collection$700
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc$600
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc$500
Greek Childrens Fund at Memorial Sloan Kettering C$500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%New York Medical College: $3k → 16%Frick Collection: $700 → 17%Da Capo Alliance: $5k → 8%Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls: $1k → 13%JAPAN Childrens SOCIETY INC: $1k → 7%Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: $3k → 17%Da Capo Alliance: $5k → 8%JAPANESE CHILDRENS SOCIETY INC: $1k → 7%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%Da Capo Alliance: $5k → 8%JAPAN Childrens SOCIETY INC: $750 → 7%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%Da Capo Alliance Foundation: $3k → 8%Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $2k → 17%Da Capo Alliance: $3k → 8%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%Da Capo Alliance: $3k → 8%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $1k → 17%Da Capo Alliance: $3k → 8%The Japanese American Association of New York: $750 → 17%Da Capo Alliance: $3k → 8%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $2k → 17%Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: $750 → 17%American Ballet Theatre: $750 → 17%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $2k → 17%Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $600 → 17%Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc: $500 → 17%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $2k → 17%BCENY: $450 → 17%UKRAINIAN AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $250 → 17%The Metropolitan Museum of Art: $2k → 17%JCCI NY: $2k → 17%Nippon Club: $1k → 17%Carnegie Hall Corporation: $1k → 17%The Nippon Club Org: $1k → 17%Carnegie Hall Corporation: $750 → 17%The Carnegie Hall Corporation: $750 → 17%The Nippon Club Org: $600 → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $1k → 17%The Nippon Club Org: $600 → 17%Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum: $350 → 17%JAPAN SOCIETY INC: $2k → 17%JAPAN SOCIETY INC: $2k → 17%THE JAPANESE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $2k → 17%Greek Childrens Fund at Memorial Sloan Kettering C: $500 → 17%THE JAPANESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $500 → 17%Lion Club: $250 → 17%Mount Sinai: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Da Capo Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 54%.

Da Capo Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 11 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$89k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-4%

Still filing today

64%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +39%
  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +3%
  • TC
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • JM
    Japanese Medical Society of America Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -4%
  • JA
    Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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.

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Medieval Japanese Studies Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
3
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
7
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is to foster and maintain an organization dedicated to making music consonant with the highest aspirations of the musical art, creating performances and providing educational and training…

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
11
Japantown Cultural Society
Education
12
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Opera Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Da Capo Alliance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Michael S Hahn MD PC: $29,000 · OtherMichael S Hahn MD PCDa Capo Alliance: $25,500 · OtherDa Capo AllianceNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $3,000 · Other+15 more: $13,400 · Other+15 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,200 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association IncThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $4,350 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln…SALON DE VIRTUOSI INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureSALON DE VIRTUOSI INCJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $3,919 · Arts & CultureJAPAN SOCIETY INCDa Capo Alliance Foundation: $3,000 · Arts & CultureDa Capo Alliance FoundationTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,350 · Arts & CultureJapanese Medical Society of America Inc: $1,500 · HealthTHE NIPPON CLUB INC: $1,060 · Recreation & SportsNew York Japanese American Lion Club Charities Inc: $200 · Community Improvement
Other$70,900Arts & Culture$34,569Health$1,500Recreation & Sports$1,060Community Improvement$200

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $4,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALON DE VIRTUOSI INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $3,919 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDa Capo Alliance Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJapanese Medical Society of America Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIPPON CLUB INC: $1,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Japanese American Association of New York Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINIAN AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Japanese American Lion Club Charities Inc: $200 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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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 Da Capo Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Da Capo Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Da Capo Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Da Capo Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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