Virginia · Private foundation
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $608,035
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Dreyfus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $863k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $450k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $39k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $2.1M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $495k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $367k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $785k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $826k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $2,263,312 | 3 | 0% |
| The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc | $1,120,481 | 4 | 1% |
| American Friends of Yeshivas Chachmei Tsorfat Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 73% |
| University of Chicago | $72,353 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $67,173 | 1 | 0% |
| Millbrook School | $65,858 | 1 | 0% |
| Bais Medrash Lmorim | $35,200 | 3 | 11% |
| Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia | $30,072 | 2 | 0% |
| Cape Henry Collegiate School Inc | $28,843 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dreyfus Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Dreyfus Foundation
- How much does Dreyfus Foundation give?
- Dreyfus Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,476,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dreyfus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (61%), Philanthropy (18%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Dreyfus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($2.3M), The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc ($1.1M), American Friends of Yeshivas Chachmei Tsorfat Inc ($140k).
- Does Dreyfus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dreyfus 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dreyfus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dreyfus Foundation based?
- Dreyfus Foundation is based in VA.
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