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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$608k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$4.1MPhilanthropy$1.2MEnvironment$615kArts & Culture$286kEducation$176kInternational$165kReligion$116kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

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
$35,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL INC: $6k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL INC: $4k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL: $4k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL: $4k → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL INC: $3k → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
GA
FL
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.
04

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%.

Dreyfus Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 29 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$5.6M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+36%

Still filing today

41%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +22%
  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2017–2018 · $72k · revenue +56%
  • BM
    BAIS MEDRASH LMORIM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +95%
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
  • CH
    CAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one 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.

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.

1
Torah Ore Seminary

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.

Education
2
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
3
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
4
The Shalem Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
6
University of Judaism Foundation
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7
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
8
Yeshiva Bais Mordechai of Teaneck

To provide religious Jewish education.

Education
9
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
10
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
11
American Friends of Collegio Maimonides

The organization provides financial assistance to jewish educational programs.

Education
12
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Mosdot Goor; 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.
05the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,263,312 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI+6 more: $176,804 · Education+6 moreVIRGINIA AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $615,090 · OtherVIRGINIA AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONSENTARA FOUNDATION: $382,141 · OtherSENTARA FOUNDATIONMOUNT SINAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $366,315 · OtherMOUNT SINAL SCHOOL OF MEDICINECHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART: $221,252 · OtherCHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ARTMULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200,612 · OtherMULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATI…+31 more: $243,208 · Other+31 moreTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,120,481 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $67,173 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer I…+2 more: $11,000 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $608,035 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY I…UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER: $215,808 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHACHMEI TSORFAT INC: $140,000 · InternationalBAIS MEDRASH LMORIM: $35,200 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23,684 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,750 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,440,116Other$2,028,618Health$1,198,654Community Improvement$608,035Philanthropy$220,808International$140,000Arts & Culture$95,634

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,263,312 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,120,481 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $608,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATER: $215,808 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHACHMEI TSORFAT INC: $140,000 over 7y, 73% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $72,353 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $67,173 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $65,858 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAIS MEDRASH LMORIM: $35,200 over 3y, 11% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $30,072 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE HENRY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $28,843 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS MONTREAL INC: $24,650 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23,684 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF EMANUEL INC: $19,800 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES: $9,500 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACHON MORESHES ASHKENAZ: $4,250 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTORAH DAY SCHOOL OF ATLANTA: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOOR: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I: $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAVNE FUND co ODONOGHUE & LAMB CPAS PLLC: $1,000 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.

  • 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.

The Ojc FundNY19.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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