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DT Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$84,321
Largest grant, FY2019
$84,321
Organizations funded a year
1 to 23
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations DT Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
Civil RightsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$84k0%
FY201810$531k30%
FY201723$1.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Science & Tech$514kPublic Benefit$455kCivil Rights$318kSocial Science$155kEducation$119kEnvironment$97kCrime & Legal$91kHealth$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WI
NY
MA
CA
VA
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New America Foundation$391,25421%
Data & Society Research Institute Inc$159,87622%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$105,00020%
Appalachian Center for Resilience Research$97,4081n/a
Without My Consent$64,939196%
Family Online Safety Institute$50,000224%
National Cyber Security Alliance$48,75014%
Consumer Federation of America$38,51121%
Center for Digital Democracy$25,00012%
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse$25,000133%
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All grantees of DT Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New America Foundation$391,25421%
Data & Society Research Institute Inc$159,87622%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$105,00020%
Appalachian Center for Resilience Research$97,4081n/a
Without My Consent$64,939196%
Family Online Safety Institute$50,000224%
National Cyber Security Alliance$48,75014%
Consumer Federation of America$38,51121%
Center for Digital Democracy$25,00012%
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse$25,000133%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$25,00010%
The University Corporation$19,34910%
New York University$12,50010%
Children's Hospital Corporation$4,97610%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($669k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

DT Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew America Foundation: $391,254 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetData & Society Research Institute Inc: $159,876 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWithout My Consent: $64,939 over 1y, 96% of budgetFamily Online Safety Institute: $50,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetNational Cyber Security Alliance: $48,750 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetConsumer Federation of America: $38,511 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCenter for Digital Democracy: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPrivacy Rights Clearinghouse: $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University Corporation: $19,349 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $4,976 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to DT Foundation?

Find your warmest path to DT Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About DT Foundation

How much does DT Foundation give?
DT Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $84,321 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does DT Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Science & Tech (29%), Public Benefit (26%), Civil Rights (18%).
Who are DT Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: New America Foundation ($391k), Data & Society Research Institute Inc ($160k), Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ($105k).
Does DT Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does DT Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as DT Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is DT Foundation based?
DT Foundation is based in CA.

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 26 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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