How much does Druckenmiller Foundation give?

Druckenmiller Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $135,743,666 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Druckenmiller Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (53%), Health (31%), Recreation & Sports (8%).

Who are Druckenmiller Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Blue Meridian Partners Inc ($223M), Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($103M), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($71M).

Does Druckenmiller Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Druckenmiller 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 Druckenmiller Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Martin D & Jean Shafiroff Foundation.

Where is Druckenmiller Foundation based?

Druckenmiller Foundation is based in NY.

Druckenmiller Foundation

Druckenmiller Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Druckenmiller 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.

$136M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$40M

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$327MHealth$193MRecreation & Sports$51MEducation$20MEnvironment$15MArts & Culture$4.9MPhilanthropy$2.5MAnimals$892kOther$0

02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $82k
$10k–50k16 grants · $292k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
$250k+14 grants · $134M

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER	$40,450,000
BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC	$31,164,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$20,100,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE	$14,500,000
FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH	$10,000,000
NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION	$6,000,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE	$5,000,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$2,000,000
THE SPENCE SCHOOL	$1,550,000
AM MUSEUM OF NAT'L HISTORY	$1,505,000
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY	$500,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION	$500,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$400,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN	$250,000
ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER	$216,666

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 (FY20–24, $326.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$607M · 72 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$607M

$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+18%

Still filing today

46%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
5× · 2020–2024 · $71M · revenue +64%
CP
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $50M · revenue +167% · 34% of their budget
NY
NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $19M · revenue +20% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

AO
AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE
one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +0%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
LH
LENOX HILL HOSPITAL MIDWIFERY CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $500k

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.

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Dms Dream Foundation. 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

74 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. 74 of the 151 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)

72/74

Grantees still filing

45/74

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$326,608,000Other$99,143,166Health$93,110,000Recreation & Sports$50,625,000Education$19,025,000Environment$14,850,000Philanthropy$12,870,000

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY24.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Martin D & Jean Shafiroff Foundation · The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Druckenmiller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Druckenmiller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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