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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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.

$9.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
124
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of DEUTSCHE BANK AMERICAS FOUNDATION’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.

02FY2024 · 124 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 124 grants below total $8,546,616 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,167,216 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $620,600 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k68 grants · $5.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
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States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Charities Aid Foundation$1,463,395
Living Cities Inc. - The National Community Development Initiative$200,000
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.$150,000
New York Foundation$150,000
New York Community Trust$150,000
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$150,000
United Way of New York City$150,000
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$130,128
Corporation For Supportive Housing$125,000
Association For Neighborhood & Housing Development, Inc.$100,000
New York Community Trust - Workforce Development Resource Center$100,000
Museum of Jewish Heritage$100,000
FIC$100,000
Counseling In Schools, Inc.$100,000
Urban Assembly, Inc.$100,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 88 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

88 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 79 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
46

Total granted

$16M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+17%

Still filing today

77%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +6%
  • ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +11%
  • CH
    CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $400k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • NB
    Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +32%
  • AA
    ASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +47%
  • TP
    The Point Community Development Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +73%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
New York Apartment Association Inc

Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.

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3
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
4
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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5
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
6
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
7
Housing Partnership Development Corporation

Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…

Housing & Shelter
8
New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

Nyceec's mission is to deliver financing solutions and advance markets for energy efficiency and clean energy in communities.

Environment
9
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.

Education
10
The Partnership for New York City Inc

(a) the development, stimulation, encouragement, improvement and promotion of the business climate in new york city; (b) the fostering of trade and commerce in new york city and the promotion of the general welfare andprosperity of new…

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11
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc

Nhn promotes racial justice while empowering low and moderate-income new yorkers to fight for, secure and maintain quality housing and build financial assets. nhn is a hud-certfied counseling agency based in brooklyn, new york.

Housing & Shelter
12
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Destiny Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Queens Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Construc…United Way AffiliatesAsian American Civic & Cult…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Community Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Jewish Community FederationsLocal History MuseumsGirls Stem Education Progra…College Foundation SupportGovernment Accountability &…Education Equity InitiativesFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Classical Music OrchestrasCharter and Independent Sch…Urban Agriculture EducationFood Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Hospital SystemsChristian Outreach Ministri…Affordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/115
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,645

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.

03the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 219 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/113
Grantees still filing
84/113
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Charities Aid Foundation — $1,463,395 · OtherCharities Aid Foundation+139 more — $16,150,217 · Other+139 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $4,132,741 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDA…THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $490,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNI…UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY — $400,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NEW YO…EARN INC — $265,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $607,500 · Philanthropy+6 moreNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BROOKLYN CDC INC — $400,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOO…BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $375,000 · Housing & ShelterBREAKING GR…NEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION — $375,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW DESTINY…ASCENDANT NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterASCENDANT N…Lantern Organization Inc. — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterLantern Org…URBAN PATHWAYS INC — $250,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN PATHW…NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL LO…CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterCORPORATION…SUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK OF NEW YORK INC — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterSUPPORTIVE …THE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterWest Harlem Group Assistance Inc — $125,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more — $243,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $450,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $450,000 · Community ImprovementCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $400,000 · Community ImprovementMosholu Preservation Corporation — $250,000 · Community ImprovementCITIZENS HOUSING & PLANNING COUNCIL OF N — $150,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc — $125,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $125,000 · Community ImprovementOWNERSHIP WORKS INC — $100,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $75,000 · Community ImprovementResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $395,000 · EducationJACKSONVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC — $160,000 · EducationAMERICA ON TECH INC — $100,000 · EducationNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $100,000 · EducationREAD ALLIANCE INC — $85,000 · EducationSTRIVE FOR COLLEGE INC — $75,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMY — $60,000 · EducationThe New School — $50,000 · EducationTHE FORUM FOR URBAN DESIGN — $50,000 · EducationNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE — $255,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society — $195,000 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $125,000 · Arts & CultureJacksonville Symphony Association Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC — $61,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $55,000 · Arts & CultureLIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE — $533,334 · Human ServicesSoHarlem Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesGATHERFOR INC — $77,833 · Human ServicesGENERATION W INC — $50,000 · Human Services
Other$17,613,612Philanthropy$5,895,241Housing & Shelter$3,368,000Community Improvement$2,125,000Education$1,075,000Arts & Culture$966,000Human Services$851,167

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $4,132,741 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE — $533,334 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $490,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFJC — $430,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $400,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY — $400,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BROOKLYN CDC INC — $400,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $395,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $375,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $375,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION — $375,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC — $300,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOUNSELING IN SCHOOLS INC — $265,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEARN INC — $265,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE — $255,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetASCENDANT NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetMosholu Preservation Corporation — $250,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetHARLEM CONGREGATIONS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT INC — $250,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLantern Organization Inc. — $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK INC — $250,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetCOMUNILIFE INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN PATHWAYS INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION — $225,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPOINT SOURCE YOUTH INC — $225,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK OF NEW YORK INC — $225,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBORHOOD & HOUSING DEVELOPMENT — $205,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $195,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $175,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $175,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $160,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJACKSONVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC — $160,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGOVERNORS ISLAND ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCITIZENS HOUSING & PLANNING COUNCIL OF N — $150,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NEW YORK CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW YORK CITY — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNew York City Partnership Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INC — $130,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC — $126,400 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS FOR EQUALITY INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Point Community Development Corporation — $125,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budget
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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationAltman FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ford FoundationPinkerton FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…Td Charitable Foundat…Booth Ferris Foundati…Wells Fargo FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…
Robin Hood FoundationNY63.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Wells Fargo Foundation · Brooklyn Community 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 219 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $9.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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