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DBL Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$225kArts & Culture$209kHealth$197kSocial Science$167kYouth Development$148kCivil Rights$60kEducation$53kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Scoiety for Biblical Studies$2,500
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York$2,500
Adirondack Mountain Club$2,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Hope Children's Fund LTD: $160k → 7%Hope Children's Fund LTD: $15k → 7%Hope Children's Fund LTD: $10k → 7%Hope Children's Fund LTD: $10k → 7%Hope Children's Fund LTD: $10k → 7%Hope Children's Fund LTD: $10k → 7%Hope Children's Fund LTD: $10k → 7%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$828k · 18 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$828k
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

67%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
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

  • HC
    HOPE CHILDRENS FUND LTD
    7× · 2017–2023 · $225k · revenue +34%
  • UF
    United for A Fair Economy Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $167k · revenue +15%
  • GF
    GLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $148k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON INC
    one grant, 2019 · $138k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    SAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -7%
  • WI
    WEST IRONDEQUOIT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0% · 45% of their budget
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
Central Adirondack Partnership for the 21ST Century Inc

Forum for community concerns

Community Improvement
2
Adirondack North Country Association Inc

Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties

Food & Nutrition
3
Adirondack Theatre Festival Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
5
Adirondack Explorer Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Historic Hudson Valley

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation

Economic development and promotion of the hudson valley region in new york.

Community Improvement
8
Visit Syracuse Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
9
Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation Inc

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.

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10
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
11
White Plains Performing Arts Center

Productions

Arts & Culture
12
Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra Inc

To provide a live musical experience that is professional, educational, and entertaining

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Syracuse University; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON INC: $138,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON INCCOMMUNITY CHANGE INC: $60,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHANGE INCWEST IRONDEQUOIT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherWEST IRONDEQUOIT FOUNDATIONACT UP DRAMA: $20,000 · OtherACT UP DRAMAIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAND STILL WE RISE TRUST: $18,000 · OtherChapman Museum: $15,000 · Other+16 more: $73,550 · Other+16 moreHOPE CHILDRENS FUND LTD: $225,000 · Human ServicesHOPE CHILDRENS FUND LT…United for A Fair Economy Inc: $166,500 · Social ScienceUnited for A Fai…GLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC: $147,500 · Youth DevelopmentGLENS FALLS AR…WORLD AWARENESS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $72,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD AWARENES…LAKE GEORGE OPERA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE GEORGE OP…VERY MERRY THEATRE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVERY MERRY THE…de BLASIIS CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culturede BLASIIS CHA…THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE THEATER OF…+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $7,500 · HealthFORT HUDSON FOUNDATION CORP: $6,000 · HealthFeeder Canal Alliance: $15,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · Education
Other$369,550Human Services$225,000Social Science$166,500Youth Development$147,500Arts & Culture$144,500Health$53,500Education$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc: $166,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC: $147,500 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MOHAWK HUDSON INC: $138,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD AWARENESS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $72,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHANGE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSAMARITAN HOSPITAL AND THE EDDY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE GEORGE OPERA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWEST IRONDEQUOIT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetFeeder Canal Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetVERY MERRY THEATRE: $15,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetde BLASIIS CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $12,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORT HUDSON FOUNDATION CORP: $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAGRICULTURAL STEWARDSHIP ASSN INC: $2,000 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.

Charles R Wood Founda…The Touba Family Foun…Price Chopper's Golub…Pioneer Bank Charitab…The Community Foundat…JM McDonald Foundatio…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Charles R Wood FoundationDE17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Spontaneous Celebrations Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 37 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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