· Private foundation
Dm 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER OF KHMER STUDIES | $100,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $17,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $17,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION PSE | $15,000 |
| IASO CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| THE GROTON SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| ST ALBANS SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HARVARD ANNUAL FUND | $1,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC8× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +75%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +58%
- WCWellesley College9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- CJCLAIRE & JACK NATH MEMORIALone grant, 2020 · $25k
- COCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN OVERSEAS RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR KHMER STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds IASO CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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