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Dka Charitable Trust

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.

$216k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$108k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Arts & Culture$173kInternational$139kEnvironment$53kHealth$46kEducation$35kPhilanthropy$30kYouth Development$21kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
$1,804
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES$108,000
THEATRE ASPEN$22,500
CSU FOUNDATION (LUCY'S SCHOLARS ENDOWMENT)$18,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
KULTURECITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,123
HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION$5,000
RERUN INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,306
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,600
CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL$3,375
CHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION (LEADVILLE TRAIL 100 MTB)$1,804
MACCABI USA$1,800
BRUCE C ABRAMS FOUNDATION$1,800
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$1,800
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KULTURECITY: $10k → 16%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $3k → 6%CHALLENGE ASPEN: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
DE
NC
DC
AL
FL

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.

03Your 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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$271k · 19 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
51

Total granted

$271k
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

68%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalAnimalsEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TA
    THEATRE ASPEN
    4× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +50%
  • TB
    THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
    5× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +5%
  • CK
    CHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • TA
    THEATRE ASPEN (1155 SHS AT&T INC)
    one grant, 2024 · $22k
  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION OF 1385 SHS OF HEMISPHERE MEDIA GROUP)
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVACY (DONATION OF 313 SHS AT&T INC)
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

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

04Your 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
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
2
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

9
The Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation

The adenoid cystic carcinoma research foundation (accrf) supports research into adenoid cystic carcinoma that will accelerate the development of improved therapies and a cure for the disease.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Online Giving Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pack Lyfe Rescue Inc. 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 backsteadyGovernment Accountability R…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionDevelopmental Disabilities …Classical Music EnsemblesChristian Missionary Organi…Community Health CentersJewish Community FederationsElementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-8 SchoolsCancer Support OrganizationsFallen First Responder Supp…Veteran Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Land Conservation Organizat…Community Arts Organizations
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%50%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

04the grantee network

45 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 87 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $21,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHEATRE ASPEN (1155 SHS AT&T INC) — $21,599 · OtherTHEATRE ASPEN (1155 SHS AT&T INC)NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION OF 1385 SHS OF HEMISPHERE MEDIA GROUP) — $20,401 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION OF 1385 SHS OF HEMISPHER…CENTRAL PARK CONSERVACY (DONATION OF 313 SHS AT&T INC) — $20,035 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVACY (DONATION OF 313 SHS AT&T INC)NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION OF 375 SHS OF NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC) — $19,942 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY (STOCK DONATION OF 375 SHS OF NATHAN'S F…TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE (ASPEN DAILY NEWS) — $18,000 · OtherTINY NEWS COLLECTIVE (ASPEN DAILY NEWS)CSU FOUNDATION (LUCY'S SCHOLARS ENDOWMENT) — $18,000 · OtherCSU FOUNDATION (LUCY'S SCHOLARS ENDOWMENT)JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER (DONATATION OF 318 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOUS INC) — $17,888 · OtherJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER (DONATATION OF 318 SHS NATHAN'S FAMOU…+51 more — $168,401 · Other+51 moreFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $126,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defens…AMPLIFY GIRLS INC — $10,000 · InternationalAMPLIFY GIRLS INC+4 more — $3,435 · InternationalTHEATRE ASPEN — $60,403 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE ASPENJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS — $8,700 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT ASPEN…+1 more — $1,008 · Arts & CultureASPEN HOPE CENTER — $11,800 · HealthCHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION — $5,580 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,100 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $3,020 · HealthFCANCER — $1,800 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $1,250 · Health+2 more — $300 · HealthASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,400 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $2,808 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,080 · PhilanthropyTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $7,750 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationLITERACY INC — $1,080 · EducationRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $1,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,000 · EducationKultureCity — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGE ASPEN — $3,000 · Human Services
Other$325,866International$139,435Arts & Culture$70,111Health$28,850Philanthropy$19,288Education$13,330Human Services$13,000

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 budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc — $126,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN — $60,403 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN HOPE CENTER — $11,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRERUN INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMPLIFY GIRLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKultureCity — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS — $8,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND — $7,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION — $5,580 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC — $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNassau County Police Department Foundation Inc — $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $3,020 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGE ASPEN — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $2,808 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIABARNARD HILLEL INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFCANCER — $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC — $1,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,008 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION IN AFRICA INC — $185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
  • Who funds THEATRE ASPEN
  • Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ASPEN HOPE CENTER
  • Who funds RERUN INC
  • Who funds AMPLIFY GIRLS INC
  • Who funds KultureCity
  • Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS
  • Who funds THE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND
  • Who funds CHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY 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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Castaways Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Dka Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Dka Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Dka Charitable Trust 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 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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