· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 32% of Dreyfus Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 13%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +95%- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $51k
- CHCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +68%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dreyfus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dreyfus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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