· Private foundation
Da Capo Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $17,300 |
| PRX | $10,200 |
| KOSHER EDUCATIONAL MEDIA INC | $10,000 |
| HUMANITY NOW | $9,500 |
| ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION | $8,400 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $7,900 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $6,900 |
| PROPUBLICA | $5,200 |
| SKEENA WILD CONSERVATION TRUST | $4,300 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE | $2,500 |
| TOUCH A HEART | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +98%- TATOUCH A HEART INC6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +55%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- SOSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +73%
- NNPRone grant, 2023 · $14k
IPASone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -6%
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.
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TOUCH A HEART INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOMOS EMPRENDEDORES ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Humanity Now ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds Public Radio International Inc ↗
- Who funds Rosalie Rendu Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Da Capo Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Da Capo Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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