· Public charity
Designers Lighting Forum of New York Incorporated
Dlfny provides the professional design community a chance to meet and experience the wonder of lighting in nyc and beyond.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARSONS THE NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION | $25,000 |
| FLINT COLLECTIVE NYC INC | $25,000 |
| LIGHT REACH AT PHOSCOPE | $20,000 |
| THE NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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
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 89% of Designers Lighting Forum of New York Incorporated’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 11%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNThe New School5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue +35%
- NYNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN6× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +44%
- TNTHE NUCKOLLS FUND FOR LIGHTING EDUC3× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue -5%
Funded once
- FIFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FIFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +80%
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.
7 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. 7 of the 8 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Designers Lighting Forum of New York Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Designers Lighting Forum of New York Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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