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Dorothy K Commanday Foundation at a glance

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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
7
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k20 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM$35,000
EAST FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
TEMPLE SHALOM$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
MD ANDERSON FOR CANCER RESEARCH$1,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,000
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$1,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$1,000
FEEDING AMERICA$1,000
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$1,000
CAMERA$800
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$800
JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA$500
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$500
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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 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.

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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
5
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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6
Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities

The auschwitz institute for the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities is dedicated to building a world that prevents genocide. we aim to see every state effectively integrate within government the domestically developed function of…

International
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Eradicate Hate Global Summit

The global summit is forging solutions to prevent all forms of hate-fueled violence.

Public Benefit
9
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
10
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $35,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICATom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife F…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE SHALOM INC: $3,500 · OtherTEMPLE SHALOM INCIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CAN…MD ANDERSON FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON FOR CANCER RESE…WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $500 · OtherJEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA: $500 · Other+4 more: $1,100 · Other+4 moreMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 · Human ServicesANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,000 · Civil RightsFeeding America: $1,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $800 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $200 · InternationalBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $500 · Health
Philanthropy$41,000Other$14,600Human Services$1,800Civil Rights$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000International$1,000Health$500

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

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 budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy K Commanday Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy K Commanday Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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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