· Private foundation
DBL 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Awareness Childrens Museum | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Feeder Canal Alliance | $15,000 |
| de Blasiis Music Series | $6,000 |
| Glens Falls High School Scholarship Fund | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Syracuse University | $3,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater New York | $2,500 |
| Scoiety for Biblical Studies | $2,500 |
| Adirondack Mountain Club | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HCHOPE CHILDRENS FUND LTD7× · 2017–2023 · $225k · revenue +34%
- UFUnited for A Fair Economy Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $167k · revenue +15%
- GFGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $148k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON INCone grant, 2019 · $138k · revenue 0%
- SHSAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -7%
- WIWEST IRONDEQUOIT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0% · 45% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Forum for community concerns
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
The organization strives to challenge entertain and nourish its audience through the development and production of new and contemporary musicals and plays. this relationship engages the community as audience members and participants in…
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
The organization publishes the adirondack explorer, a bimonthly news magazine, and associated websites devoted to the protection and the enjoyment of the adirondack park in northeastern new york state.
The organization's mission is to celebrate the history, architecture, landscape and material culture of the hudson valley, advancing its importance and thereby assuring its preservation.
Economic development and promotion of the hudson valley region in new york.
The purpose of the corporation is to provide for the encouragement, solicitation, promotion, procurement, and servicing of all forms of travel to and through onondaga county, new york, specifically including, but not limited to,…
The saratoga springs preservation foundation promotes the preservation and enhancement of the architectural, cultural, and landscaped heritage of saratoga springs through educational programs, advocacy, technical assistance and restoration.
Productions
To provide a live musical experience that is professional, educational, and entertaining
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University and the most unlike its peers is The Society for Biblical Studies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOPE CHILDRENS FUND LTD ↗
- Who funds United for A Fair Economy Inc ↗
- Who funds GLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AWARENESS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE OPERA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST IRONDEQUOIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeder Canal Alliance ↗
- Who funds VERY MERRY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds de BLASIIS CHAMBER MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FORT HUDSON FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GLENS FALLS-QUEENSBURY HISTORICAL ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA ROWING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charles R Wood Foundation · The Touba Family Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization DBL Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Spontaneous Celebrations Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.