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Dermer Foundation Co David Dermer Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$26kInternational$17kEducation$8kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$3kHuman Services$2kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$710Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$188k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATIION$13,900
CHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELS$3,818
LIFE ALLIANCE RECOVERY AGENCY$500
CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL$360
BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY$250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER: $360 → 12%MACCABI USA: $250 → 22%CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 20%US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $613 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $280 → 13%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%RENANAH HADASSAH: $360 → 15%CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES: $360 → 14%DERMER DREAMS: $2k → 6%ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION: $360 → 6%MELVIN J BERMAN ACADEMY: $472 → 8%CENTRAL FUND FOR ISRAEL: $1k → 6%CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL: $613 → 20%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $280 → 13%EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND: $1k → 6%ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $350 → 17%CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL: $613 → 20%DERMER DREAMS: $613 → 6%CHABAD OF BETHESDA: $360 → 8%AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF SHAARE ZADEK: $613 → 17%CHABAD OF CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL: $613 → 20%CHABAD OF BETHESDA: $360 → 8%AMER COMMITTEE OF SHAARE ZEDEK: $360 → 17%CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL: $360 → 20%EZRA LEMARPEH: $360 → 20%LIFE ALLIANCE RECOVERY AGENCY: $500 → 15%CHABAD OF BETHESDA: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE IDF: $2k → 17%CHABAD OF BETHESDA: $2k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%RALPH CAREY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $360 → 15%AUTISM RESCUE MISSION: $750 → 15%INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING: $4k → 17%CHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELS: $4k → 15%WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATIION: $14k → 17%CHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELS: $2k → 15%CHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELS: $2k → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $1k → 15%CHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELS: $931 → 15%RASG HEBREW ACADEMY: $613 → 15%THE HEBREW ACADEMY: $613 → 15%BETH EL CONGREGATION: $540 → 15%GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION: $500 → 15%GIRLS TOWNOR CHADASH: $430 → 15%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $360 → 15%GIRLS TOWN ORLY CHADASH: $280 → 15%FRIENDS OF THE FIDF: $500 → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI DEPARTMENT OF O: $1k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
FL
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 23 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
46

Total granted

$28k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+9%

Still filing today

43%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionHealthArts & CultureEducationHuman 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

  • CO
    CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +176%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $316 · revenue +90%
  • BU
    BARRY UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $298 · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -56%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
6
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
7
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
8
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
9
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.

International
10
Greater Miami Hillel Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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11
Sherit Isroel
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12
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Yad Vashem Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs. 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

27 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. 27 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELS: $8,995 · OtherCHABAD HOUSE ON WHEELSCHABAD - LUBAVITCH OF BCC INC: $7,520 · OtherCHABAD - LUBAVITCH OF BCC INCIndividual grant recipient: $2,413 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+50 more: $16,746 · Other+50 moreWorldwide Friends Foundation: $13,900 · InternationalWorldwide Friends FoundationFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE …Central Fund of Israel: $1,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPI…+1 more: $250 · InternationalCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,792 · ReligionCHABAD ON…ANSHEI LUBAVITCH INC: $432 · ReligionANSHEI LU…ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $350 · ReligionZIONIST O…+2 more: $218 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I: $3,600 · EducationBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $298 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $180 · Education+1 more: $90 · EducationGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $1,680 · PhilanthropyThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $613 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $360 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $360 · Arts & CultureMARCH OF DIMES INC: $200 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 · HealthFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $180 · Health
Other$35,674International$17,950Religion$5,792Education$4,168Philanthropy$1,680Arts & Culture$1,333Health$780

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 budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,792 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $1,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $613 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANSHEI LUBAVITCH INC: $432 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $316 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $298 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY: $118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Darche Noam Inc - David Shapell College of Jewish Studies: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $90 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Worldwide Friends Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds ANSHEI LUBAVITCH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Jewish Federation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dermer Foundation Co David Dermer Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dermer Foundation Co David Dermer Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy: 2% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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