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Dean 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 $10k27 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCSF MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION FOUNDATION OF ROC | $20,007 |
| THE PAPS CORPS | $20,000 |
| SUTTER SANTA ROSA REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| BRAIN BOWL EVENTS INC | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,511 |
| MONTEFIORE NYACK HOSPITAL | $10,011 |
| PHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $10,007 |
| PROVIDENCE SANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSP | $10,000 |
| AMFAR THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSSGREATER NY REGION | $8,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ORANGETOWN JEWISH CENTER | $5,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| SONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 9 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- SSSHINING STARS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +95%
- PMPHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +73%
- MNMontefiore Nyack Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS - GRTR NY REGIONone grant, 2020 · $11k
- BCBelos Cavalos Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -48%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF S PB CNTYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.
Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Untermyer Gardens Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 133 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SHINING STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHELPS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Montefiore Nyack Hospital ↗
- Who funds Brain Bowl Events Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Montefiore Nyack Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JCC ROCKLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Belos Cavalos Inc ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ELISABETH MORROW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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: The Chazen Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Dean 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.
- Women's Rights Information Center — 16% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Camp Airy & Camp Louise Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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