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Daedalus Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$215k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$33k
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.

Education$397kHuman Services$330kInternational$309kCivil Rights$247kEnvironment$123kCrime & Legal$106kHealth$95kPublic Benefit$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
$13,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$32,500
BRENNAN CENTER$32,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$32,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$32,500
SUR LE CHEMIN DE L'ECOLE$20,000
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY$13,000
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$10,000
NRDC$10,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$10,000
MIAMI WATERKEEPER$9,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE$7,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AL OTRO LADO: $5k → 11%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $10k → 14%ZERO TO THREE: $33k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $4k → 11%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $5k → 20%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $5k → 14%YOUNG CENTER: $4k → 14%DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $5k → 14%YOUNG CENTER: $5k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $14k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $5k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $65k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOVACY PROJECT: $4k → 17%THE ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $10k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $6k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $14k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Daedalus Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 41%.

Daedalus Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 31 repeat orgs$870k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
67

Total granted

$1.0M
$838k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+2%

Still filing today

71%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AT
    ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN
    2× · 2018–2019 · $90k · revenue +61%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +10%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • DP
    DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue -29%
  • WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -27%
  • ALL OUR KIN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -33%
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.

1
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
3
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
6
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
7
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
8
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
9
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
10
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
11
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
12
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc

Irap is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. everyone should have a safe…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Nontraditional Employment for Women. 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

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 100 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
49/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherON THE WAY TO SCHOOL FOUNDATIONNAACP LDF: $45,000 · OtherNAACP LDFSUR LE CHEMIN DE L'ECOLE: $40,000 · OtherBRENNAN CENTER: $38,500 · OtherASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT: $33,000 · OtherFAIR FIGHT: $30,000 · OtherNEW YORK - PRESBYTERIAN: $30,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $65,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLSWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $30,000 · OtherFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $35,000 · OtherNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $28,000 · Other+38 more: $363,000 · Other+38 moreASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $90,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO…ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $33,000 · Human ServicesZERO TO THREE …No One Left Behind: $24,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left Be…THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S…DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS HOPE CH…WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S REFUGE…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDRE…THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $9,000 · Human ServicesAL OTRO LADO: $9,000 · Human Services+2 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $48,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …International Rescue Committee INC: $35,000 · InternationalInternational …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $32,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $32,500 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATI…Save The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 · InternationalSave The Child…HOPE FOR HAITI INC: $10,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $10,000 · InternationalALIGHT: $10,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $9,000 · International+5 more: $25,000 · International+5 moreBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $70,000 · EducationBENNINGTON CO…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $50,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRE…ALL OUR KIN INC: $33,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN I…PREP FOR PREP: $33,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREPAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationAMERICAN NURS…ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $13,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT F…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $9,000 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · EducationEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $85,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $46,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $4,000 · Crime & LegalNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $17,500 · EnvironmentBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $14,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $32,500 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $17,500 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$827,500Human Services$248,000International$242,500Education$232,500Crime & Legal$135,500Environment$122,500Civil Rights$106,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $48,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $46,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $33,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $28,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS HOPE CHARITIES: $20,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $17,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S THEATRE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOYJ INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAMA BABY INTERNATIONAL: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Robin Hood FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…WK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationRsf Social Finance IncImpactassetsincCharity Bridge FundThe New York Communit…The Robert Wood Johns…Boston Foundation IncJewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…
Robin Hood FoundationNY23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Charity Bridge Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Daedalus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daedalus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: 19% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Daedalus Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Daedalus 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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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