How much does Dr Joy to the World Inc give?

Dr Joy to the World Inc reported 80 grants totaling $472,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Dr Joy to the World Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (27%), Animals (12%), Health (12%).

Who are Dr Joy to the World Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City Harvest Inc ($53k), National Women's Health Network ($37k), Food Bank for New York City ($35k).

Does Dr Joy to the World Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Dr Joy to the World Inc 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 Dr Joy to the World Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, American Express Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.

Where is Dr Joy to the World Inc based?

Dr Joy to the World Inc is based in NY.

Dr Joy to the World Inc

Dr Joy to the World Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Dr Joy to the World Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$472k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$24k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$269kAnimals$118kHealth$114kHousing & Shelter$83kHuman Services$69kInternational$59kCivil Rights$34kEnvironment$30kOther$0

02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k65 grants · $264k
$10k–50k15 grants · $208k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK	$23,500
CITY HARVEST	$20,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS	$18,750
Individual grant recipient	$18,750
Individual grant recipient	$18,000
NWHN PLAN C	$13,000
Individual grant recipient	$11,250
MONTANA FOOD BANK	$11,250
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$11,250
FEEDING AMERICA	$11,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$11,000
NYC RESCUE MISSION HOPE FO NY	$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND	$10,000
FOODBANK NYC	$10,000

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 (FY23–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$581k · 37 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$581k

$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+43%

Still filing today

70%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentInternationalHealthOther

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

CITY HARVEST INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +75%
NW
National Women's Health Network
6× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +259%
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY
7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +113%

Funded once

TR
TONGUE RIVER EMERGENCY SHELTER
one grant, 2023 · $8k
DO
DONATION ON FACING HUNGER
one grant, 2022 · $6k
H
HFNY
one grant, 2022 · $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.

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.

Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition

The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition

Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition

Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition

Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition

Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank of New Jersey Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

58 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. 58 of the 114 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)

58/58

Grantees still filing

35/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$564,200Food & Nutrition$164,650International$73,500Health$62,500Animals$53,750Human Services$38,500Civil Rights$35,500

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.

First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Columbus Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation

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 Dr Joy to the World Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Joy to the World Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

18report 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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