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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 FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
65%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,804
Largest grant, FY2025
$108,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 23
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$3.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Dka Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving22$212k59%
FY202423$123k65%
FY202316$32k63%
FY202211$40k55%
FY202118$87k78%
FY202012$41k83%
FY201915$55kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc$126,00020%
Theatre Aspen$60,40341%
Aspen Hope Center$11,80010%
Amplify Girls Inc$10,00010%
Youth With a Mission$10,0001n/a
Rerun Inc$10,00021%
KultureCity$10,00010%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$8,70010%
The Baruch College Fund$7,75050%
Chris Klug Foundation$5,58031%
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All grantees of Dka Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc$126,00020%
Theatre Aspen$60,40341%
Aspen Hope Center$11,80010%
Amplify Girls Inc$10,00010%
Youth With a Mission$10,0001n/a
Rerun Inc$10,00021%
KultureCity$10,00010%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$8,70010%
The Baruch College Fund$7,75050%
Chris Klug Foundation$5,58031%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$5,10040%
The Highland Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc$5,000113%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
Nassau County Police Department Foundation Inc$3,60010%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$3,02060%
Challenge Aspen$3,00020%
Barnard College$2,50010%
Wilderness Workshop$2,30020%
Jewish Resource Center Chabad Of$2,1602n/a
Columbiabarnard Hillel Inc$1,80010%
Maccabi USA Inc$1,8001n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom$1,80010%
Fcancer$1,80010%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$1,35010%
Children's Miracle Network$1,25020%
Children's National$1,25020%
Literacy Inc$1,08020%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$1,00810%
Riverdale Country School Inc$1,00010%
Shri Surya Narayan Mandir Inc$1,0001n/a
The Buddy Program Inc$1,00010%
Guardian Revival Inc$1,0001n/a
Read Ahead Inc$54010%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$54020%
Congregation Ahavath Torah$5001n/a
Pasadena Humane$5001n/a
Pack Lyfe Rescue Inc$5001n/a
The Children's Health Fund$36010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$20010%
Action in Africa Inc$18510%
Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter$1801n/a
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$10010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$10010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10010%
Baby2baby$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($277k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dka Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 Hope Center: $11,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmplify Girls Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRerun Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 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 Miracle Network: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's National: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetRead Ahead Inc: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $540 over 2y, 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 budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaby2baby: $100 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 36.

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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.

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

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 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.

About Dka Charitable Trust

How much does Dka Charitable Trust give?
Dka Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $215,618 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Dka Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), International (23%), Environment (9%).
Who are Dka Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ($126k), Theatre Aspen ($60k), Aspen Hope Center ($12k).
Does Dka Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dka Charitable Trust 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 Dka Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Castaways Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
Where is Dka Charitable Trust based?
Dka Charitable Trust is based in NY.

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 87 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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