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Dorothy K Commanday Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$61k
Granted FY2020
21
Grants FY2020
20
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$35,000
States reached, FY2020
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America$35,00011%
Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd$5,00010%
Temple Shalom Inc$3,5001n/a
Anti-Defamation League$1,00010%
Feeding America$1,00010%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$1,00010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$80010%
Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc$80010%
Brightfocus Foundation$50010%
United States Fund for Unicef$20010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorothy K Commanday Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrightfocus Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $200 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 9.

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About Dorothy K Commanday Foundation

How much does Dorothy K Commanday Foundation give?
Dorothy K Commanday Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $60,900 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Dorothy K Commanday Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Religion (6%), Health (6%).
Who are Dorothy K Commanday Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America ($35k), Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd ($5k), Temple Shalom Inc ($4k).
Does Dorothy K Commanday 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.
Where is Dorothy K Commanday Foundation based?
Dorothy K Commanday Foundation 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 21 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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