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.

Dka Charitable Trust

Dka Charitable Trust at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$108k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% 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

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $39k
$10k–50k4 grants · $69k
$50k–250k1 grant · $108k

$1,804

Median grant

States reached

$3.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES	$108,000
THEATRE ASPEN	$22,500
Individual grant recipient	$18,000
CSU FOUNDATION (LUCY'S SCHOLARS ENDOWMENT)	$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
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP	$1,800
BRUCE C ABRAMS FOUNDATION	$1,800
MACCABI USA	$1,800

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$271k · 19 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Total granted

$271k

$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

-9%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalAnimalsEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

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

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.

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

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

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

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education

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

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

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

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…

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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

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

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

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Online Giving Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

25/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$325,866International$139,435Arts & Culture$70,111Health$28,850Philanthropy$19,288Education$13,330Human Services$13,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dka Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dka Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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