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Dreyfus Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $536k
- $250k+2 grants · $865k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $608,035 |
| SENTARA FOUNDATION | $257,309 |
| CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART | $211,046 |
| MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $158,766 |
| MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $100,736 |
| MILLBROOK SCHOOL | $65,858 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHACHMEI TSORFAT INC | $35,000 |
| BAIS MEDRASH L'MORIM | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS MONTREAL INC | $6,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL | $3,600 |
| SOCIETY FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES | $2,250 |
| TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA | $1,500 |
| YESHIVATH VIZINITZ DKHAL TORATH CHAIM INC | $1,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 32% of Dreyfus Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 13% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI3× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +22%
University of Chicago2× · 2017–2018 · $72k · revenue +56%- BMBAIS MEDRASH LMORIM3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +129%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +73%- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $51k
- CHCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +68%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
To further jewish education in israel
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Furtherance of jewish education
To provide religious Jewish education.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
The organization provides financial assistance to jewish educational programs.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Mosdot Goor and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHACHMEI TSORFAT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BAIS MEDRASH LMORIM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS MONTREAL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MACHON MORESHES ASHKENAZ ↗
- Who funds AM YISRAEL CHAI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOOR ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dreyfus Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.