· Public charity
Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids Inc
DIFFA grants funds to organizations providing aid and access to healthcare for a diverse group of people impacted by HIV/AIDS, food & housing insecurities, and mental health issues.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $436,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $453,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $411k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alpha Workshops | $20,000 |
| Visual Aids for the Arts Inc | $20,000 |
| UCSF University of California | $20,000 |
| East Texas Cares | $17,150 |
| Dallas Hope Charities | $17,150 |
| Legal Hospice of Texas | $17,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,150 |
| Legacy Counseling Center Inc | $17,150 |
| Aids Arms | $17,150 |
| Aids Outreach Center | $17,150 |
| Cooks Children Medical Center | $17,150 |
| Childrens Medical Center ARM | $17,150 |
| Resource Center of Dallas | $17,150 |
| Elevate North Texas | $17,150 |
| Planned Parenthood of Greater | $17,150 |
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 (FY17–25, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +65% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- AOAIDS OUTREACH CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +49%
- RCRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +157%
- CCCook Children's Medical Center7× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- NYNew York Community Trust Comone grant, 2018 · $170k
- UOUniversity of Californiaone grant, 2018 · $80k
- ARAIDS Research InstituteUCSFone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
Allies in hope (aih), formerly known as aids foundation houston, inc. (afh), is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1982 and was among texas' first organizations dedicated to hiv prevention education and services. aih provides stabilizing…
Harlem united provides healthcare, supportive housing and prevention services to persons living with or at risk for aids or hiv related illnesses and other chronic conditions.
Aids service center of lower manhattan, inc., d/b/a alliance for positive change ("alliance") is a not-for-profit community organization founded in 1990 with a central mission of helping low-income new yorkers living with hiv and other…
Vision: vivent health envisions an end to the hiv/aids epidemic.mission: to end hiv/aids by providing integrated, personalized, judgment-free healthcare, social services, and effective prevention strategies.
Aids community resources, inc. d/b/a acr health, is a community-based organization providing prevention, education, and support services to people with chronic illnesses, including hiv/aids, and those at risk for contracting hiv, stds, and…
The mission of the alliance for positive health is to reduce the impact and incidence of hiv/aids and other serious medical and social conditions in northeastern ny.
The mission of aid atlanta is to reduce hiv infections and improve the quality of life of its members and the community by breaking barriers and building community. we fulfill that mission by providing an array of comprehensive services…
Since national hiv & aids housing coalition, inc. (nhahc) was formed in 1993, its coalition of national and community-based organizations and individuals have been providing strong advocacy, representation, and training for thousands of…
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…
Housing works services inc. is a federally qualified health care center (fqhc) providing a broad range of health services to persons living with aids, hiv-related illnesses and chronic diseases. in addition, housing works services inc.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 95 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 NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds AIDS OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC ↗
- Who funds PWA COALITION OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds DALLAS HOPE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds AIDS INTERFAITH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ↗
- Who funds Sonya's House Inc ↗
- Who funds TARRANT COUNTY SAMARITAN HOUSING INC ↗
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 Mac AIDS Fund · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Black Tie Dinner Inc · The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · AIDS United · Meadows Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation
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 Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.