How much does Dart-L Foundation give?

Dart-L Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $50,180,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Dart-L Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Religion (14%), Civil Rights (1%).

Who are Dart-L Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: American Friends of Yeshiva of Kodshim ($4.0M), Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc ($2.0M), De Toledo High School ($250k).

Does Dart-L Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Dart-L Foundation 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 Dart-L Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Ojc Fund, Yes Ben Dovid Foundation Inc.

Where is Dart-L Foundation based?

Dart-L Foundation is based in CA.

Dart-L Foundation

Dart-L Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Dart-L Foundation

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.

$50M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$24M

Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Dart-L Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$152MReligion$24MCivil Rights$2.0MEducation$501kHealth$77kHuman Services$24kMembership Benefit$8kInternational$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$16,680,000

Median grant

States reached

$276M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$23,500,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND	$16,680,000
USA OUTREACH PRIORITY 1	$10,000,000

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Dart-L Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Dart-L Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$506k · 5 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$506k

$6.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+5%

Still filing today

60%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

DT
DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL
2× · 2018–2021 · $250k · revenue +10%
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ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL
2× · 2018–2021 · $250k · revenue +41%
AT
AGUDAS TOV V'CHESED INC
2× · 2020–2021 · $600 · revenue +133%

Funded once

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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA OF KODSHIM
one grant, 2021 · $4.0M · revenue -43% · 51% of their budget
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +36%
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NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE INC
one grant, 2021 · $200k

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.

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Ahavas Torah V'chesed

Philanthropy

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education

Yad Laniyim

Philanthropy

The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation

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Tal Hashamayim Foundation

Religion

Chesed Aharon

Philanthropy

University of Judaism Foundation

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Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is De Toledo High School; the most unlike its peers is Azy Silver Memorial 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

20 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. 20 of the 49 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)

18/20

Grantees still filing

11/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$109,404,860Community Improvement$42,860,000Religion$19,955,400Education$4,250,000Arts & Culture$2,000,000Health$51,500Philanthropy$50,100

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA28.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ojc Fund · Yes Ben Dovid Foundation Inc · Goldner Family Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Dart-L Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dart-L Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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 Dart-L Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dart-L Foundation 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home