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Divide by Zero 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.

$122k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Divide by Zero Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$122k14%
FY202414$113k21%
FY202312$97k17%
FY202213$106k23%
FY202114$72k36%
FY202014$90k7%
FY201914$82k14%
FY201814$80k14%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$226kInternational$115kArts & Culture$95kFood & Nutrition$93kPublic Safety & Disaster$82kHealth$47kEnvironment$32kAnimals$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
NY
PA
CA
AZ
KS
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Divide by Zero Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $125,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Public Broadcasting Inc: $110,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNanubhai Education Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $68,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetParish Episcopal School: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTerlingua Fire & EMS Inc: $30,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding North Texas Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSiti and Jido Park Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKipp Dallas-Fort Worth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Medicine Foundation: $9,860 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAkshaya Patra Foundation (Usa): $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPratham USA: $6,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Kindness: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $4,801 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne Tree Planted Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Bend Natural History Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRecreational Aviation Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Katy Trail Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Divide by Zero Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Divide by Zero 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.

About Divide by Zero Foundation

How much does Divide by Zero Foundation give?
Divide by Zero Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $121,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Divide by Zero Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), International (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are Divide by Zero Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($125k), North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc ($110k), Nanubhai Education Foundation Inc ($90k).
Does Divide by Zero Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Divide by Zero Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Divide by Zero Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Divide by Zero Foundation based?
Divide by Zero Foundation is based in TX.

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 35 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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