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Diogenes Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Diogenes Charitable 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.

$153k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.6MRecreation & Sports$801kEducation$63kInternational$20kPhilanthropy$20kAnimals$15kHealth$5kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$804k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$115,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$30,000
STRATFORD HALL HISTORIC PRESERVE$5,000
FULCRUM ARTS$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AUCTION RESCUES INC: $5k → 8%DIGICOM LEARNING: $2k → 11%FULCRUM ARTS: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD: $3k → 9%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DANCE: $3k → 8%REBUILD FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AUCTION RESCUES INC: $5k → 8%DESERT BIENNIAL: $10k → 11%FULCRUM ARTS: $3k → 14%WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR ART & PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES: $1k → 14%AUCTION RESCUES INC: $5k → 8%FULCRUM ARTS: $3k → 14%FOUNDATION OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS: $3k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR ART & PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES: $1k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $10k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $10k → 17%JANET MAY LESLEY LIFE FUND: $5k → 17%THE SHED: $2k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $2k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $91k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $38k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $38k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $310k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $38k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $182k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $33k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $130k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $30k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $125k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $28k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $54k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $28k → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $28k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $240k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $125k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $123k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $116k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $115k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $103k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $100k → 17%NEW MUSEUM: $90k → 17%NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $83k → 17%INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 17%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
CT
CA
VA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 12 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    2× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue +161%
  • TD
    THE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • JM
    JANET MAY LESLEY LIFE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
7
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
9
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
10
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
11
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc

The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.

Arts & Culture
12
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Auction Rescues Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,094,500 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary ArtMuseum of Modern Art: $348,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art+8 more: $114,490 · Arts & Culture+8 morePARK AVENUE ARMORY: $801,287 · OtherPARK AVENUE ARMORYYALE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · Other+11 more: $51,200 · Other+11 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $20,000 · InternationalAUCTION RESCUES INC: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationPALM SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,557,490Other$892,487Philanthropy$20,000International$20,000Animals$15,000Education$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,094,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $348,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X: $35,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUCTION RESCUES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFULCRUM ARTS: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $2,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Diogenes Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diogenes Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 28 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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