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Deborah Elkins Foundation at a glance

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Deborah Elkins Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Health$206kArts & Culture$142kEducation$49kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$2kReligion$750
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$157k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
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 (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ISABELLA GERIATRIC CENTER: $3k → 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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 8 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$303k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+39%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $152k · revenue -52%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2017–2023 · $81k · revenue +58%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2020 · $43k

Funded once

  • TY
    THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +72%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SPINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -100%
  • BW
    BOB WOODRUFF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Manhattan Eye & Ear Ophthalmology Alumni Foundation Inc
Health
5
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
International Spine Study Grp Found
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Isabella Geriatric Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Spine Research Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $152,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERNATIONAL SPINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthNATIONAL SPINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION+2 more: $9,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $80,775 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK …WNET: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWNETIndividual grant recipient: $42,500 · OtherIndividual grant r…BOB WOODRUFF FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherBOB WOODRUFF FOUND…+3 more: $4,275 · Other+3 moreNEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · EducationISABELLA GERIATRIC CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesINSPIRATIONAL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INC: $750 · Religion
Health$196,000Arts & Culture$140,775Other$66,775Philanthropy$6,500Education$5,000Human Services$2,500Religion$750

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 budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $152,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $80,775 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL SPINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWNET: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROPSYCHOANALYSIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA GERIATRIC CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRATIONAL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Deborah Elkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deborah Elkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–90%
    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 17 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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