· Private foundation
Dedalus Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $20,000 |
| THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS & WRITERS INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE FORTUNE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| 1 THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Dedalus Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 42%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 30 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION3× · 2021–2023 · $135k · revenue +6%- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations2× · 2023–2024 · $102k · revenue +76%
- TBTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- MAMODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTHone grant, 2022 · $100k
- MDMANTHIA DIAWARA AND TERRI GEISone grant, 2021 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
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.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 162 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds UC PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Laundromat Project Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dedalus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dedalus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Provincetown Arts Press Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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